Taylor vs. The Poets
Battle of the 20s
Love Songs?
Rap?
100
"And all I loved, I loved alone."
Poet! 
Edgar Allen Poe
100
"I've been walking through a world gone blind"
Lyric!
That is "Ocean Eyes" by Billie Eilish.
100
Poem or Lyric?
"I’ve loved and I’ve lost
But that’s not what I see..."
Lyric!
This one’s a song- thank u, next by my girl Ariana Grande.
100
“When it feel like living's harder than dying/For me giving up's way harder than trying”
Lyric!
This is Kanye West's "Champion"
200
"I remember it was in the bleak December."
From Poe's "The Raven":
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
Only this and nothing more.”
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
200
"I didn't get the chance to feel the world around me."
Song from the 2020s!
"Easy on me" by Adele
200
"Needle and the thread, got to get you out of my head"
Lyric!
"Stitches" by Shawn Mendes
200
"You can break my body/ But you can't lock the soul of a man down."
Lyric!
That is "Believe" by Meek Mill & Justin Timberlake
300
"In black ink my love may still shine bright"
The great poets!
"Sonnet 65" by Shakespeare
300
2020s song or 1920s poem?
"The age demanded an image/Something for the modern stage"
1920s Poem!
Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [Part I]
BY EZRA POUND
300
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
Poem!
“Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by W.B. Yeats
300
"I can see you're sad even when you smile/even when you laugh I can see it in your eyes"
Lyric!
This is Eminem's "Mockingbird"
400
"And I still talk to you when I’m screaming at the sky / And when you can’t sleep at night you hear my stolen lullabies.”
Taylor Swift!
From the song "My Tears Ricochet."
400
"Falling out/ in a drought/ No flow/ rain wasn't pouring down."
Song from the 1920s!
"Astronaut in the Ocean" by Masked Wolf
400
“You are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing.”
Poet!
This one is by E.E. Cummings, "I Carry Your Heart With Me."
400
"I'll carry it off like a rich pretty girl,
Simply open the door and step out of the car"
Poem!
This one is by Silvia Plath "Stopped Dead"
500
"My knuckles were bruised like violets / Sucker punching walls, cursed you as I sleep-talked / Spineless in my tomb of silence"
Taylor Swift!
From the song "The Great War"
500
“Rage is a quiet thing / You think that you’ve tamed it / But it’s just lying in wait.”
Song from the 2020s!
Lady Gaga & Elton John's "Sine from Above"
500
"Watch the light lift your heart up/Burn your flame through the night."
Lyric!
That is Beyoncé's "Spirit."
500
"All alone/Whether you like it or not/alone is something you'll be quite a lot."
Poem!
This is Dr. Seuss, "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"