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As the new year approaches please keep in your thoughts that Taylor Swift wrote lyrics for a song in a movie whose book was otherwise composed entirely by poet TS Eliot, and in that song she repeatedly rhymes the word “wanted” with “wanted”

BE THAT FEARLESS MY CHILDREN
does “go” rhyme with “ghosts”? buddy you better believe no one has time to check
(I have written needlessly extensively about Swift’s idiosyncratic relationship to rhyme scheme in general, but it is such a STRANGE DELIGHT to see someone who possibly does not know what rhymes ARE laid directly against history’s most anal retentive rhymer TS ELIOT)
the neat thing about “Beautiful Ghosts” as a song in CATS is it is specifically a rebuke, as performed by the new cat, of the show (and Eliot’s) stylistic haunted ruin: “you think you’re so sad and shit but I can’t even RHYME!”
some folks are saying Eliot didn’t write “Memory” in #Cats, which is technically true, but while it’s not in “Old Possum” it is actually patched together of paraphrases from Rhapsody, Prufrock, and the Waste Land. You’ll find a lot of its DNA here: poetryfoundation.org/poems/44215/rh…
oh neat Wikipedia has this neat image chart!!!
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