<aside> 💡 Analysis - In Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Puck is sent by the fairy king Oberon to fetch a purple flower so that Oberon can make a powerful love potion. This flower is the pansy, a flower that is usually linked with queer history & that Taylor has referenced: ‣ This is important because she has referenced white pansies with no purple on them, which fits into the myth around these flowers that Shakespeare refers to, summarised below:

https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/love-in-idleness-pansies-midsummer-nights-dream/

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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also: ‣

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Debut (October 24, 2006)

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• Teardrops On My Guitar Taymojis - reference to a nursery rhyme describing what boys and girls are made of, like ingredients for a potion

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Are_Little_Boys_Made_Of%3F

Lover (August 23, 2019)

folklore (July 24, 2020)