Taylor Swift's new album 'The Tortured Poets Department' is packed with references and Easter eggs. Here are the key details you may have missed.

Taylor Swift photographed for "The Tortured Poets Department."Beth Garrabrant

• Taylor Swift's "The Tortured Poets Department" is rich with complex lyrics and subtle references.
• Swift said she curated "a summary of my findings" after two successive heartbreaks.

Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department," may just be her most self-referential work to date.

Swift herself described the album as "a summary of my findings" after two successive heartbreaks — and a lifetime in the spotlight — full of "muses, acquired like bruises, talismans and charms."

Swift is known for lacing her music with clues about her personal life and callbacks to her previous work. Early in her career, she left messages by capitalizing certain letters in lyric booklets, incentivizing fans to examine her writing. Swift abandoned that strategy several albums ago, but make no mistake: The Easter egg hunt is still on and more extensive than ever.

Keep reading for a breakdown of the standard tracklist, including key lyrics and themes.