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I loved it! Makes me want to live it all over again. Thank you!!

Love this video!! I watch this movie every year so I love that you’re doing a story study on this!! ❤️💚💚

Team Gale or Team Peeta? 😆🤪

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Please react to more lana Del Rey!! Gods and Monsters is very good but also very dark

I'm so grateful I found your channel. I'm a writer and a swiftie and I've been craving more literary analyses of taylor's songs that don't just talk about which ex the song is about. You're amazing! I'm also learning so much about writing as I learn to analyse taylor's work more. Please upload more of these videos!

I agree to all your choices, though I’d love to add loml to the list

The title track of the album has great lyrics apart from the second verse, the rest of the song is beautiful. I also love the contrasting imagery in down bad, the lyrics in loml, the smallest man who ever lived, clara bow, the imagery in but daddy i love him and in fresh out the slammer (which also has really great rhymes and the rhythm is so addicting) and of course there's guilty as sin which is also so beautiful. I prefer the standard edition over the anthology, but my favorite on the anthology is I hate it here- it has so many meanings and is just gorgeous and I hate the way that the second verse in that song was taken out of context when it's about how romanticising any historical period has its drawbacks, especially for anyone who isn't a white man.

Brilliant ❤

I just feel like every song is somehow about Matty Healy at this point. 😅

That is genius!

I really liked you and your information intelligence very well done only one thing that totally shocked me was you not showing one of the biggest lines in the movie the line that really gets the tears flowing. A toast to my big brother George the richest man in town.

You know of any magazine that accept short sci fi stories of 500 or 600 characters?

i hope you will do more videos like this one, in which you teach/show us about literature we might not know that you find to be connected with a piece of music you are going to analyze. it is a great way to expand our knowledge while also enjoying something we already were looking for. thank you for your videos! 🌿

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This is interesting, but you talk so quickly that I can't keep up.

Love your content Megan, im about to finish year 12 of highschool and I can only wish this is the sort of vidio they showed us in class, i would of payed so much more attention 😂❤

this is so crazy because i just finished reading the chamber of secrets TODAY after deciding to re(re-re-re-re)-read the series. wild coincidence

Alan Watt in his book 'the 90-day Novel' has a brilliant way of digging into character through the questions. There is a Film Courage interview with him. His method is so contrary to the more common plotting methods.

Obviously, I have to ask - which house would you be in? Despite my Gryffindor scarf, I'm actually a Ravenclaw 🤓🦅

I've just come across your channel and found this very helpful. My question is What if the second half of the novel splits it's two stories. I don't know which one to choose. Maybe I just need to look deeper into the premise for theme options. Just TOL here. But thanks anyway.

Oh well, I call myself a self-pleasing story writer and love writing stupid emotional stuff. Yet i never really published any stories before. I just enjoy transmitting my story characters into chatbots and other people and play with them. Well after i've seen your video i suddenly have the motives to rewrite my stories until perfect and maybe try publishing... Thanks, i followed

I was doing this poem in school when ttpd came out 😂

Is the Black Dog about Joe or Matty?

Main theme of the movie: "AS YOU SOW, THUS SHALL YOU REAP." It is in all of us; we cannot help but being moved by seeing that principle played out.

I really liked your analysis of the song and poem in this video. I remember reading the poem when I was in high school (or maybe junior high?) but I had forgotten the particulars until Swift’s album came out and I brushed up on it again. I love the song so much and have really enjoyed dissecting the various references that she uses. I find her music so interesting because she writes such complex lyrics if you really get into them. I wonder what you might think of another possible reference for the line where she says “one bad seed kills the garden, one less temptress…”It gives me biblical vibes related to Eve disobeying God and tempting Adam to eat the apple. So Eve is considered the bad seed for daring to go against the rules and seek knowledge for herself and Adam, ultimately causing them to be banished from paradise in Eden. So wise men in the song were warning against falling for the temptress’s wiles lest she ruin the man. There are some other songs with lyrics that allude to this comparison. Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve (WCS) comes to mind but there are more because it’s definitely a theme for her (with reason IMO). WCS starts with this (and it’s an excellent song if you’ve not heard it): If you would've blinked, then I would've Looked away at the first glance If you tasted poison, you could've Spit me out at the first chance If I was some paint, did it splatter On a promising grown man And if I was a child, did it matter If you got to wash your hands

I’ve always thought how it was so interesting that in her song, the perception of the “wise men” was that SHE was the cause of his destruction, the man a victim of her power. But in the poem, the albatross is a symbol of guilt; the mariner brought destruction upon himself by his bad deeds. In the poem, it is the albatross that is the victim and the mariner who must pay for his sins. So what I actually think Taylor is commenting on is that rarely are these men “destroyed” by her. They do bad things. She writes songs about them. They get cancelled. She’s calling out that misogyny.

This song uses the 'stream of consciousness' literary technique perfectly...Hands down one of the best-written song ever...Your analysis is concise but thorough 👏

Commas are SO important! Lyrical breakdown can be hard as an outsider because of the lack of punctuation 😂

Hi Megan Maclaine, I searched for vedios related to "where to publish your short story", and one of your vedio popped up to be the first one. I usually don't visit profiles from vedios, but luckily I did it this time. I watched little parts of some of your vedios and I feel very good seeing an author having such joyous personality, which usually in my part of world people think is unusual. I am an author and poet myself, breaking the stereotypes of young girls cannot write good stuff and writers are one who are extreamly educated and have compose personalities. I really want to work and collaborate with you. I think we will blend well. I have ideas that we can mutually craft. I I have no other way to reach out to you, so I hope you would consider this formal invite through an informal means. Warm Regards.

thanks, that was useful

my favourite part of august its how the lyrics have combinations of words that sound like two different things, alluding to both its meanings inside the narrative of the song, and at the same time adding to this image of a "secret summer love", hidden in plain sight. "back when we were still changing for the better, (Wanting was enough/One thing was enough" sounds the same. "back when i was living for the hope of it all, (Meet me behind the mall/Meet me behind them all)"

Fairy lights through the mist combined with the following two lines gives me the idea that she keeps thinking she can see something special ahead, so she keeps trying to carry them forward into that bright future she keeps glimpsing. But fairy lights are brief and impossible to catch.

I've thought "only liquor annoints you" as he has no divine protection, and only has the shot of tequila he took for courage (or similar drink).

I haven't watched the live action but the clips I see here look like the actors are taking themselves a little too seriously and this takes away the lightness and depth of emotion the animation had.

I think it's meant to be "pulled me out by my waist-long hair to the beachside". As in, she was drowning, the neighbours grabbed her hair (which was long, down to her waist) and pulled her out to safety.

Which do you think is more effective? Flashback or incorporating a scene in the story proper?

Magan ! Great video script articulation, great voice accsent , clarity in words, beautiful rhythmic speed of words ,very easy to follow the captions and the subject PREMISE is understood in a great way . Many Thanks.

I’m old enough that I remember when it was common for parents to give daughters cedar chests upon their high school graduation. They would be filled with things that the girls wanted in their own homes when they moved out on their own - handmade quilts, photo albums, and the like. Cedar keeps bugs, especially moths, from destroying the contents.

I'm enlightened and understand the song better.

dust collecting on her hair can mean she’s going grey from how long it’s been

I always loved Bon Jovi's "Dry County" lyrics. Give it a go, if you will. I'm sure you'll love it too.

Só amazing this class! ❤❤

Great analysis!

I loved your analysis!! Thank you so much for sharing it, the albatross is my favorite song from the album and I’ve been watching and reading every theory and analysis on it lol, really really loved yours 💗

I like this discussion thanks. I will point out that candle in the wind references Diana, she has a statue called the Albatross created for her and the episode of the Crown about the paparazzi and Diana is ‘persona non grata’. So I don’t think you were off the mark to also think of candle in the wind. I think the song is referencing being hounded by the media. Thinking your being hounded because of Taylor but then realising they can turn on you but she can save you by turning the narrative

This is amazing!! Thank you for sharing it with us ☺

I love “loml”, “I Hate It Here” and “But Daddy I Love Him”