Vogue Features Taylor Swift's Poetry

Pop icon Taylor Swift may be an authority when it comes to "Style," but... poetry? The Telegraph reports that Swift will be on the cover of Vogue's January issue, but in place of an interview the magazine will share four stanzas of her verse. "The fashion Bible is the only title so far to have access to the newly reclusive star, having put Swift on the cover of their January issue and styled an extensive photo shoot with her following the release of her sixth album, Reputation, last month," the Telegraph reports. Let's pick up with the story from there: 

So far, however, Vogue has not been granted an interview with Swift. Instead, the magazine has printed The Trick to Holding On, a poem written by her, in its glossy pages. 

The poem is largely indistinguishable from one of her lyric sheets, although it features no repeated chorus, and deals with the themes of standing strong in the face of criticism and enjoying fleeting pleasures.

Tristram Saunders, The Telegraph's poetry critic, says: "It reads more like an early draft, a handful of unedited song lyrics, than a self-contained piece. As a lyric poem, it is not a success; from the leaden anaphora of the opening lines to the heavily signposted rhyme of the conclusion, there's simply too much to take issue with.

"But it's not entirely without merit, either.["]

Read more at The Telegraph.