·  When you hear the name Taylor Swift , it is difficult to not be able and name one of her songs . However Taylor’s lyricism has been so clever over the past years and it is astonishing how after over a decade she is able to stay relevant and reinvent herself with each new album . It is quite well known that she has been one of the biggest names in pop music , but with the surprise album brought out in the summer 2020 , something shifted in her image when she brilliantly used elements of Neo-classical instruments as well as combining the genre of indie folk and alternative rock. It was a surprise for us music lovers , a beautiful one. 

·  With themes from addiction to mental health , Taylor chose to tell a story with an album that could easily be analysed as poems in a class. Many would argue that the difference between a poem and a song is small , almost non-existent. The track with the number 5 on the album, named ‘ My tears Ricochet’ touches upon the theme of death and regret , themes found in works of the greats poets , Emily Dickinson’s or Christina Rossetti . The second line of the song reading , ‘ If I’m on fire , you’ll be made of ashes too’ portrays the theme of cremation, stating that when she will be dead and disposed by burning,  her spirit will still haunt her lover . This violent emotion created, almost felt like biting by a reader , which illustrates something similar that can be noticed in Dickinson’s love poems such as ‘Possession’ where there can be seen how obsessive love and romance can be. Listening to track number seven , named right after its track number , Swift portrays the downside of fame and touches on the theme of nostalgia . The lines reading , ‘ I hit my peak at seven, feet in the swing over the creek’ can have a couple meanings , as one of them can be seen as a more literal one demonstrating Taylor was at her happiest when she was a child , before feeling the taste of fame , which again it is something similar to Dickinson’s view on fame , ‘fame is a fickle food , upon a shifting plate ‘ (Fame is a fickle food, E. D.) . Of course there could be a dual meaning to this line as Taylor could easily mean that she has obtained a lot of confidence over the years. The imagery found in first and second stanza , as well as mentioning , ‘hide in the closet’ , an universal term for someone hiding their sexuality could contribute to the fact that this song contains elements of queerness portraying the difficulty someone faces when having to hide parts of themselves to the world. This again it is something that can be noticed in Emily’s poems , especially the letters she wrote to Susan Gilbert. On the deluxe version of ‘Folklore’ , the American singer added one bonus track called , ‘The Lakes’ , which represents the song that the most similarities to the structure of a poem. The title of the track , it is referring to the Lake District , the place where the romantic poets William Wordsworth , Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey lived , Wordsworth being one of the poets that indirectly gets mentioned in the song. The song illustrating a sense of tragedy , reminds the listener of the Romantic Era , an era where the emotions felt by artists, especially poets were taken to the extreme , this can be seen by the words used such as , ‘heart-stopping’ , or later words in the song , ‘calamitous’ and ‘insurmountable’ found in the bridge. In the bridge of the song the line reading ‘ I want to watch wisteria grow right over my bare feet ‘ can be found which additionally to the strong imagery created can have different interpretations. The mention of wisteria , a flower full of purple and lilac which in Victorian times illustrated the consequences an obsessive , over-passionate love can bring . However juxtaposing to this meaning , in countries like China the flower is associated with playfulness and adventure . Due to theme of romance throughout the song , Taylor tried to portray the desire she has to be grounded , to settle down with someone , to put down roots , afraid of being suffocating to her lover the same way the plant suffocates the trees at times. 

· Taylor Swift , with the release of this album has shown the world what her fans already knew , that being the fact that she is capable of writing songs for any type of genre. This album’s impeccable quality of song writing has the possibility to be introduced in poetry classes for people to have the opportunity to analyse the lyrics as there are lots of distinctive themes portrayed in each song.