Taylor Swift Blank Space

It talks about how the drama of Swift’s failed relationship with Harry Styles simmers in the details of the verses before the bombast of the chorus brings the pay-off. A brilliantly crafted track on every level from beginning to end. But not only in that song, Billboard mentions that in an interview "Swift says she has hardly dated since splitting with One Direction's Harry Styles early in 2013, and the songs' musical styles follow the character types she plays on the album: train wreck waiting to happen ("Blank Space"), committed partner ("I Know Places," "This Love"), penitent breaker-upper ("I Wish You Would"), spurned break-upee ("All You Had to Do Was Stay"). Lyrical references to him are all over the album: There are several vehicular-mishap analogies (the pair were in a snowmobile accident in 2013) and even a song called 'Style.'" Even though the songs were inspired from him, I do not like the way she reflected her break up on these

In the roaring 20’s, America was referred to as the ‘Jazz Age’, a positive and optimistic time where possibilities seemed endless. The concept in EBB’s sonnet of ideal love transforming individuals is similarly interpreted through the characterisation of Gatz into Gatsby. The obsessive love to ‘own’ Daisy highlights the idea that this power of love can only exist in the Jazz Age. Gatsby’s idealised love is derived from the traps of wealth and money which is clearly evident in the dialogue “her voice is full of money”. Gatsby’s is willing to reinvent himself for Daisy and he consumes everything he does in life to make himself worthy of Daisy so they can marry as if it were five years ago. Nick the novel’s narrator, tells Gatsby that “you can’t repeat the past” to which Gatsby replies “why of course you can! I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before”. This evidently shows that the power of ideal love which is genuine and unconditional is very strong on individual’s and transforms them into a whole new world with new values. Gatsby’s determination to make everything right evidently depicts how the concept of ideal love had transformed him to attain his ideal love, Daisy. Hence, Fitzgerald conveys his perspective of ideal love during the Jazz Age, and similar to EBB, ideal love is seen to transform individual’s and demanding for love to

Nick describes that the abundant sky must look alien to Gatsby, lacking the familiar optimism Gatsby saw in everything. The the leaves must be frightening due to the notion of dreams dying and the world changing into one where one breathes “dreams like air”. Then, the rose, a symbol of beauty, will appear grotesque as all the meaningful objects that inspired hope in Gatsby would become painful reminders of a dream lost. The absence of Daisy’s call must shift Gatsby’s entire perspective; the sky to the roses are changed to reflect the inevitable failure of an ambitious

In Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space”, Swift makes use of a prominent poetic device, paradox. The rhetorical device that Taylor Swift has used again and again in the song is ‘paradox’ and it is considered as her weapon of choice in writing the entire song. For example in the first line “Nice to meet you/ Where you’ve been.” (Swift), it is contradictory. You do not care for where a person has been if you do not met him/her before, unless you knew all along that you will be meeting him or waiting for him even though you did not know who he was. The ‘nice to meet you’ line implies that she has just met him. That is just a first example of a number of paradoxes used in the entire song.

Thesis statement: Taylor Swift is one of the most successful female artists in the world who portrays her personal experiences through her music.

Love can be both a beautiful and dangerous thing. It can destroy people’s lives, but it can also build new and beautiful lives for others. Everyone experiences love at least once in their lifetime. It can take over a person’s life, never thinking about anything else except that other person who they are in love with. The Great Gatsby is just one book that shows how love can change how a person sees the world and how they act. The novel follows the lives of a group of people and the ups and downs of the love between some of them. In the novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald represents to the reader how love can both change and destroy other’s relationships and lives with each other while still being a beautiful thing.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, portrays the life of a man who is truly focused on one dream: to reclaim the love of his life. This one dream propels every one of Gatsby’s actions, words, and thoughts, making him extremely vulnerable. When she shatters his world in his last few hours alive, he finds himself with no meaning left in his life. Fitzgerald uses extended metaphor and sharp diction to show Gatsby’s crumbling life in his last moments. Fitzgerald employs the extended metaphor of the “new world” to illustrate the total collapse of Gatsby’s reality.

As one of the most recognizable book covers in the history of American literature: two sad female eyes and bright red lips adrift in the deep blue of a night sky, hovering ominously above a carnival scene. Full of sorrow and excess, this image has become so connected to The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, that many of the elements within the cover such as the eyes and the figure within them reflect the haunting messages found in the novel.

Through diction and figurative language in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, he portrays that dreams cannot last forever and that you eventually have to face reality. At first, Fitzgerald illustrates Gatsby as an infant by incorporating “ pap” and “milk” when he is considering to “climb alone”. If Gatsby “climbed alone” he would be reborn again and able to achieve the “wonder” that life has to offer. The description of  Daisy’s “white face” indicates a meaning of purity, cleanliness, and rebirth. By saying that “his mind would never romp again like the mind of God” reveals that after he kisses her all of the dreams he had of her would become known and that he would now have to put all of his dreams to rest. When Gatsby is with Daisy,

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, portrays the life of a man who is truly focused on one dream: to reclaim the love of his life. Fitzgerald illustrates the problem of being so single-minded through Gatsby’s ultimate demise. His slow evolution and reveal of the character of Gatsby leads to a devastating climax once his dream fails. Fitzgerald uses extended metaphor and sharp diction to depict Gatsby’s crumbling life in his last moments.

     F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a tragic tale of love distorted by obsession. Finding himself in the city of New York, Jay Gatsby is a loyal and devoted man who is willing to cross oceans and build mansions for his one true love. His belief in realistic ideals and his perseverance greatly influence all the decisions he makes and ultimately direct the course of his life. Gatsby has made a total commitment to a dream, and he does not realize that his dream is hollow. Although his intentions are true, he sometimes has a crude way of getting his point across. When he makes his ideals heard, his actions are wasted on a thoughtless and shallow society. Jay Gatsby effectively embodies a romantic idealism

“The quiet lights in the houses were burning out into the darkness and there was a stir and bustle among the stars.” (Fitzgerald, pg 71). I never really fell ‘out of love’ with that boy, though a boy he was and but a girl was I when we were together. I’ve always been mature, though, so naturally I developed adult feelings for this charming little knight in shining armor. However, it was not to be. Nor, as it seems, shall it ever be - no matter how much Gatsby and I might dream of reliving those happy golden days. “I’m going to fix everything just the way it was before … She’ll see.” (Fitzgerald, pg 71). Like Gatsby, I was also put in some state of reverie by the glorious and ridiculous dreams of devoted adoration I put into the person I dreamed I was in love with. “He had thrown himself into it [loving Daisy] with all of his creative passion… decking [his fantasy of her] out with every bright feather that drifted his way.” (Fitzgerald, pg 62) Loving like that - with rose-colored glasses so foggy with infatuation that you can’t see anything except what you want to see - is dimwitted and destined for devastation. It was that passion that blinded Gatsby from seeing the truth: the world moves on. Not even someone who we thought hung the moon just for us can stop

In musical superstar Taylor Swift’s music video for her song “Blank Space,” she is portraying herself as the high maintenance and dramatic girlfriend that the media believes she is. The speaker of this text is the media’s perception of Taylor Swift and her message is about the disconnect between who Swift really is and who the media sees her as. I believe Swift has two purposes for this music video. One is for her character in the music video to warn her audience about the type of love that boys want, and the other for real life Taylor herself to poke holes into the media’s concept of her love life. The video is filled with satire and paradoxes to convince us that our idea of Taylor Swift is not an accurate opinion of her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald uses The Great Gatsby to discuss obsessive tragic love, and appearance versus reality. These ideas are first presented to the reader in the opening epigraph which is a quotation taken from, This Side of Paradise, another novel by Fitzgerald,: “Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; / If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, / Till she cry ‘Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, / I must have you!”. The Great Gatsby follows Gatsby’s journey to win back Daisy, through the eyes of the narrator, Nick Carraway. Fitzgerald uses the opening epigraph to introduce the idea that Gatsby changes himself so that Daisy will notice him. This change and obsession with Daisy is what eventually leads to Gatsby’s demise. The opening epigraph sets the tone for the remainder of the book, and readers can see many connections between the epigraph and Gatsby’s actions throughout the book.

First, the music video connects with teen girls by using lyrics that question staying in these harmful relationships. Shawn Mendes sings, “And you’re spending all your time in this wrong situation”, to motivate teen girls not to waste their time in those harmful relationships. These motivating lyrics help to encourage teenage girls to remove themselves from these relationships. When Shawn Mendes sings about how she should not waste her time in the wrong relationship, it encourages teen girls to get out of those bad relationships. Second, the music video relates to teen girls by using touching lyrics so that teenage girls realize the harmful relationships, they are in. Shawn Mendes sings the words, “But I can see it on your face when you say that he’s the one that you want”, as encouragement for teen girls to do what they want and leave a relationship if they feel unsafe or do not want to be part of it. Again, these compassionate lyrics inspire teen girls to disconnect harmful relationships, because that is what they should want. When Shawn Mendes sings about how it is obvious that the girl feels unhappy in the situation, it relates to other teen girl’s emotions and interests them to leave those situations. Through the use of concerning lyrics, of questioning and emotion the music video encourages teenage girls to leave their harmful relationships. Shawn Mendes’ “Treat