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!
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