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assemblage poetry

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A poetic form that assembles fragments, quotations, or diverse materials into a unified composition

Detailed Definition
Assemblage poetry is a genre that constructs meaning through the strategic arrangement of heterogeneous textual elements—quotations, headlines, diary entries, code—often without traditional syntax or narrative; it reflects postmodern fragmentation and challenges notions of authorship, coherence, and originality.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Burroughs’s cut-up poems exemplify assemblage poetry; Tracy K. Smith’s “Wade in the Water” assembles Civil War letters into lyric; Assemblage poetry repurposes existing texts to create new meaning; It blurs authorship and emphasizes intertextuality; Digital poets use code, ads, and tweets as assemblage material.
Additional Notes
assemblage poetry is a poem created using the assemblage method, relying on the power of the juxtaposition of fragments to generate new meaning; related to Found Poetry and Dadaism.
Also Known As
Collage poetry Found-text form Poetic assemblage Bricolage
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