<aside> 💡 Emily Dickinson seems to use “town/village” as a symbol of society’s ideals (found on this Twitter thread: https://x.com/jigeumun_/status/1469930365703925760?s=46)
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<aside> 💡 Analysis -
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<aside> 👂 Social Media Analysis Relating To This Theme:
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<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life:
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<aside> 🌈 Queer History: Queer people have consistently experienced a new sense of freedom moving away from towns to big cities, where they are more likely to find queer spaces & community and feel less observed by small town, conservative communities. Chappell Roan speaks about how it felt being in LA for the first time and captures her feelings of new-found freedom in her song “Pink Pony Club”
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<aside> ➕ See also:
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<aside> 🌈 Queer history: Queer people have consistently experienced a new sense of freedom moving away from towns to big cities, where they are more likely to find queer spaces & community and feel less observed by small town, conservative communities. Chappell Roan speaks about how it felt being in LA for the first time and captures her feelings of new-found freedom in her song “Pink Pony Club”
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Romanticising experiences in a small town/showing awareness of the dangers of cities
Romanticising experiences in a big city/showing awareness of limitations of small town
Neutral connotations for town/city or up to interpretation
Running away from the city/town or a desire to do so
The city or town represents the threat of gossip
Separation - her and the muse are in different cities