Finding Life’s Meaning in Epiphany
2026-08-13 · 63 min · episode 52 · 5 entities
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We are tackling one of the most underrated tracks from Taylor Swift’s folklore album, epiphany. The poem compares past war tragedies to 2020’s pandemic, and Uncle Jerry uses the poem to teach us about Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory.
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Works Cited:
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner – Randall Jarrell
The Angels at Hamburg – Randall Jarrell
Vignette poems
Rhapsody on a Windy Night – T. S. Eliot
Trochees
Iambs
The Song of Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ernest Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory
*Death in the Afternoon – Ernest Hemingway
Caesura
Parallelism
Synecdoche
*The Things They Carried: The Classic Work of American Literature on War, Memory, and Storytelling –Tim O'Brien
*Man's Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent – John Milton
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix
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