And then I think we also need to think about Tom Swift

I'm just sayin'...

She'd rather sing about her personal life than talk about it

Is satire TOO mean?




"Satire uses laughter as a weapon and against a butt that exists outside the work itself" M.H. Abrams A Glossary of Literary Terms



But as Swift points out in his own ironic "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift" 1739:


Yet malice never was his aim;
He lashed the vice, but spared the name...
His satire points at no defect,
But what all morals may correct...

These lines offer guidance and a direction for 'reading' Taylor Swift who clearly influences me. I'd better get to work on that!

Satire is a sort of glass,

wherein beholders do generally discover 

everybody's face 

but their own;

O Canada!

which is the chief reason for 

that kind of reception 

it meets in the world, 

and that so very few 

are offended with it.

.

A future classic from a long line of influences all the way back to the one and only Jonathan Swift

As time passes, as it inevitably does, she will finally find herself old and fat, and our sweet Taylor will scribble an autobiography that will flow with ease from the noble tradition she springs from:

It is at such moments that the seeds of satire are sown.

From the most recent issue of Vanity Fair - the one with Angelina on the cover. I don't know what to think!

Welcome to The Jonathan Swift

a place
a moving target
the good ship...
a friend to satire