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The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology

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🧐 Are you a tortured poet? Find out with my TTPD Lyrics Quiz!

TTPD Prologue & Epilogue Analysis

  • Stevie Nicks’ TTPD Prologue Poem
  • TTPD Epilogue Poem “In Summation”

Lyrical Analysis of Every Song on The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology

  • Fortnight
  • The Tortured Poets Department
  • My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys
  • Down Bad
  • So Long, London
  • But Daddy I Love Him
  • Fresh Out The Slammer
  • Florida!!!
  • Guilty As Sin?
  • Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?
  • I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can)
  • Loml
  • I Can Do It With A Broken Heart
  • The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived
  • The Alchemy
  • Clara Bow
  • The Black Dog
  • Imgonnagetyouback
  • The Albatross
  • Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus
  • How Did it End?
  • So High School 
  • I Hate it Here
  • thanK you aIMee
  • I Look in People’s Windows
  • The Prophecy
  • Cassandra
  • Peter
  • The Bolter
  • Robin
  • The Manuscript

TTPD Album & Era Analysis

TTPD Era: Themes & Motifs

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I analyze Taylor Swift lyrics from a writer and English teacher’s point of view.

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