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avant-garde collage

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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 poem assembled from fragmented, non-traditional materials in the spirit of avant-garde experimentation

Detailed Definition
Avant-garde collage in poetry refers to a radical compositional technique that integrates heterogeneous textual, visual, or auditory elements—such as newspaper clippings, advertisements, overheard speech, or typographical experimentation—into a single poetic work, deliberately disrupting conventional syntax, form, and coherence to critique societal norms, question authorship, and foreground the materiality of language, as exemplified by Dadaist and Surrealist poets like Tristan Tzara or Kurt Schwitters.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tristan Tzara’s “To Make a Dadaist Poem” instructs cutting up newspaper text to create chance-based verse; Kurt Schwitters’ “Ursonate” uses phonetic nonsense and typographic play as anti-art poetry; Hannah Höch’s photomontage-inspired poems juxtapose advertising slogans with political fragments; Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s sound poems combine industrial noise and bodily utterance in radical collage.
Additional Notes
Avant-garde collage in poetry merges textual fragments, visual elements, or non-literary materials to disrupt conventional form; rooted in early 20th-century movements like Dada and Surrealism, it prioritizes innovation over coherence.
Also Known As
Experimental montage Radical assemblage Disruptive textual collage Constructivist assemblage modernist patchwork
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