Looks like Taylor Swift hit the nail on the head by naming his next album “The Tortured Poets Department” . The North American company Ancestryresponsible for helping people trace their genealogy, found evidence that the pop star is distantly related to none other than the famous poet Emily Dickinson .
“We need to calm down… but how can we when we have BIG news!?” says a post on Ancestry's Instagram account. “The renowned American poets T Taylor Swift and Emily Dickinson are 6th cousins three times apart.”
“Swift and Dickinson descend from a 17th-century English immigrant (Swift's ninth great-grandfather and Dickinson's sixth great-grandfather, who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut),” according to Ancestry.
A CNN has reached out to Taylor Swift's rep for comment. The news was first announced on NBC's “Today” show.
Emily Dickinson, who lived from 1830 to 1886, is known for her poems such as “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “‘Hope’ Is the Thing with Feathers.”
The writer, who must have been a celebrity in her time, even wrote about fame as being her distant cousin. “Success is considered the sweetest / By those who have never succeeded / To comprehend a nectar / Requires the greatest need,” Dickinson wrote in her poem, “Success is considered the sweetest.”
Swifties have long drawn the connection between the two women.
Taylor Swift’s “Evermore” album was announced in 2020 on December 10, which is Dickinson’s birthday. Some believe that the title was inspired by Dickinson's poem “A Sister I Have in Our House”, which includes the word “forvermore” (“forever”, in Portuguese translation).
Two years after that announcement, Swift referenced the legendary writer in her acceptance speech for the Nashville Songwriters Association International's Songwriter-Artist of the Decade award.
Swift explained that the lyrics she writes fall into three genre categories: quill lyrics, fountain pen lyrics, and glitter gel pen lyrics, which reference the writing instrument she imagines she would be holding while writing the lyrics. letters.
“If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson's great-grandmother while sewing a lace curtain, that's me writing in the quill genre,” Swift said, noting that her single “Ivy” from “Evermore” would fall into that category.
Welcome to the historic era of Swift.
Source: CNN Brasil
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