<aside> 👸 Relevance to Taylor’s Life: On the Kaylor Big Sur trip, Taylor posted the below image to instagram with the caption “This forest situation”. She captioned another photo with a list including “forests”

In footage of the VSFS 2014, Taylpr sings along to Ed Sheeran’s lyrics: “cause honey your soul will never grow old it’s evergreen”

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<aside> 🌈 Queer History:

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<aside> ➕ See also: Tree line/edge of the forest/above the trees/out of the woods

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<aside> 💡 Analysis - Taylor features on a Big Red Machine song called Birch, and someone commented on Genius Lyrics to say that the song could be a reference to Robert Frost’s poem ‘Birches’. This poem is worth a read, especially if it has inspired Taylor’s view of tree symbolism in her work. I’ve included a section that I feel is the most relevant below.

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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44260/birches

Debut (October 24, 2006)

• Mary’s Song (Oh My My My): Take me back to the house in the backyard tree

Fearless (November 11, 2008)

• The Best Day:
  • I don’t know why all the trees change in the fall
  • And now I know why all the trees change in the fall

Speak Now (October 25, 2010)

Red (October 22, 2012)

1989 (October 27, 2014)

• Prologue - We are never out of the woods, because we are always going to be fighting for something.

• Out Of The Woods:

  • Are we out of the woods yet?
  • But the monsters turned out to be just trees

• Blank Space MV - Taylor carves her & the man’s name into a tree, and then tries to destroy it with an axe

  

• Taylor’s Instagram - out of the woods promotion

Reputation (November 10, 2017)

• October 24th 2018 - posted this photo in Australia

  

• Taylor featuring in an ad for Direct TV Now - she rides a rainbow Olivia Benson caticorn in a forest and then jumps over a ocean-side cliff (forests, ocean & cliffs are very Big Sur) Cliffs

  • In the BTS clip she calls this set the “magical forest of dreams” - https://youtu.be/gA3b_rR-OAE?si=giB-d3yzfm2KgWLB