Do you know your Taylor Swift from your Shakespeare? Take our brainy quiz to find out
IT’S not easy writing a Love Story, as many literary geniuses – including Taylor Swift – know.
Now the US singer’s work will be compared to the likes of Shakespeare, Chaucer and the Bronte sisters in a master’s degree in language and literature at Ghent University in Belgium.
Professor Dr Elly McCausland, who will teach the course, says: “I want to show my students how much fun historical English literature can be.”
But can you tell your Swift from your Shakespeare, Wordsworth or even Lewis Carroll?
Emma Pietras presents lyrics from Taylor and lines from famous authors in the ultimate quiz for bookworms and Swifties.
Answers below.
1 - “Took a wrong turn, and we fell down a rabbit hole.”
2- “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
3 - “He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
4 - “Once upon a time. A few mistakes ago. I was in your sights. You got me alone. You found me.”
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5 - “You and I walk a fragile line. I have known it all this time. But I never thought I’d live to see it break. It’s getting dark and it’s all too quiet.”
6 - “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul — and sings the tune without the words — and never stops at all.”
7 - “Say my name and everything just stops. I don’t want you like a best friend. Only bought this dress so you could take it off.”
8 - “All I want is a dress with puffy sleeves!”
9 - “I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don’t know what to think.”
10 - “Be worthy, love, and love will come.”
11 - “I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river; to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
12 - “I have this thing where I get older, but just never wiser. Midnights become my afternoons when my depression works the graveyard shift.”
13 - “Take me to the lakes, where all the poets went to die. I don’t belong and my beloved neither do you.”
14 - “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours.”
15 - “All these people think love’s for show but I would die for you in secret.”
16 - “And I’ll stay...forgetting any other home but this.”
17 - “Past the curses and cries. Beyond the terror in the nightfall.”
18 - “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break.”
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19 - “I’d meet you where the spirit meets the bones in a faith-forgotten land.”
20 - “Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”
Answers
1. Taylor Swift, Wonderland; 2. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland; 3. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights; 4. Taylor Swift, I Knew You Were Trouble; 5. Taylor Swift, Haunted; 6. Emily Dickinson, “Hope” is the thing with feathers; 7. Taylor Swift, Dress; 8. L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables; 9. Taylor Swift, Love Story; 10. Louisa May Alcott, Little Women; 11. Virginia Woolf, Night And Day; 12. Taylor Swift, Anti-Hero; 13.Taylor Swift, The Lakes; 14. William Wordsworth, The World Is Too Much With Us; 15. Taylor Swift, Peace; 16. William Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet; 17. Taylor Swift, Happiness; 18. William Shakespeare, The Taming Of The Shrew; 19. Taylor Swift, Ivy; 20. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
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