Finding Agency in Dear John
2026-07-30 · 85 min · episode 50 · 5 entities
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Feed author/publisher: Angela McDow | Dr. Jerry Coats
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Feed author/publisher: Angela McDow | Dr. Jerry Coats
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We’re back in our Speak Now era with Dear John. Angela explains the lore behind this quintessential track 5 from Taylor Swift, and Uncle Jerry talks himself into being a fan of this poem.
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Works Cited:
Dear John Letter
Agnes von Kurowsky
*A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
A Dear John Letter – Jean Shepard & Ferlin Husky
Dear John Letter – Whitney Houston
Epistolary frame
Poetic Inversion
Dramatic Irony
Metapoetry
Metonymy
The Scholar-Gipsy – Matthew Arnold
The Swiftie and The Scholar Grading Matrix
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