Works and Days
Works and Days surfaces in one Taylor Swift song, through allusion.
Appears in 1 song
Associated with Hesiod
“This is the golden age Of something good and right and real”
Uncle Jerry identifies the bridge line 'This is the golden age' as an allusion to Hesiod's account of the Golden Age in Works and Days, the first and best of the five ages of humanity, marked by peace, harmony, and flourishing without toil. He reads Taylor's line as claiming this same rare quality for the relationship: a moment of harmony and flourishing set apart from ordinary time. He connects the gold imagery to the moral language that follows ('something good and right and real'), and situates the golden age alongside the song's other classical references (Achilles' heel, the Fates) as part of a sustained classical-allusion pattern.