Poets adapts trauma for the world stage, deeming forbidden love to be a sexier story than all the real-life parasocial petitioning. Photo: Taylor Swift via YouTube In The Tortured Poets Department, American bard and billionaire Taylor Swift invokes the story of Cassandra, the Trojan princess who receives the gift of clairvoyance from the Greek god Apollo, a lover who later curses her never to be believed. “They knew, they knew, they knew the whole time / That I was onto something / The family, the pure greed, the Christian chorus line,” she sings on “Cassandra,” a folk-pop paean to going...