Swift’s relationship was a physical experience. Since breaking up, the full-bodied physical experience of another person has been replaced by a flattened, empty version. For example, Swift sings: “I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep.” When they were together, Swift saw a three-dimensional, moving, human being. After the break-up, she will now see him only through static, pixelated representations on an instagram feed.

John relied upon darkness to cover up his misdeeds. Swift becomes a radiant source of light, illuminating not just herself, but a whole town

In Back To December, Taylor Swift explores decay over time.

Taylor Swift scholar presents a close reading of Don't You.

In We Were Happy, Swift reflects with sadness on what it means to play the role of a setting sun in someone else's life.

Swift has clearly not forgotten Mr. Perfectly Fine yet, but she claims power for herself by replacing his name with twenty-eight sick burns.

In the metaphors and similes in You All Over Me, Taylor Swift paints an increasingly grim series of portraits of herself after a breakup.

Swift says “I might tell you that its over but if you look a little closer…” Like Derrida, she believes that language must be deconstructed.

In The Way I Loved You, Swift describes her past relationship as if it were a psychedelic drug and she is now experiencing withdrawal.

Swift, a nihilist semiologist, emphasizes how words can be emptied of meaning by saying “You’re not sorry no no no (no).”

Swift addresses all six dimensions of wellness (physical, emotional, occupational, intellectual, spiritual and social) in Tell Me Why.

In Breathe, Taylor Swift describes cessation of biological function at every level – from her whole body to her organs to her very cells.

Through A Perfectly Good Heart, Swift thus illustrates how the human body is altered at the end of a relationship.