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Collage verse

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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 assembled from fragments of pre-existing texts—literary, historical, or media sources—creating new meaning through juxtaposition.

Detailed Definition
Verse created by combining pieces of different texts, documents, newspapers, or other written sources into a new poetic composition, often highlighting connections between disparate materials
Example
Example in poetry:
Conditional mood: Dickinson: “If I can stop one Heart from breaking”; Auden: “If I could tell you”; Original: “If silence were a country, I’d burn my passport”
Additional Notes
Poetry employing collage techniques of fragmentation and assemblage. Related to: montage verse, pastiche. Study Pound's Cantos and modernist experimentation.
Also Known As
cut-up poetry fragment assembly assemblage verse Cento Collage poem Assemblage poem
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