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Consolatio

Genre
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 classical genre of consolation poetry offering comfort in grief

Detailed Definition
Consolatio is a classical rhetorical genre offering philosophical comfort in grief, adapted into poetry as a meditative form that moves from lament to acceptance; it often invokes stoic, Christian, or natural cycles to reconcile the mourner to loss.
Example
Example in poetry:
Consolatio offers poetic comfort in grief: Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son”; Milton’s “Lycidas”; W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” (“Stop all the clocks”); Mary Jo Bang’s “Elegy” reimagines Virgil for modern loss; contemporary examples include Natasha Trethewey’s “Elegy for My Father.”
Additional Notes
Latin term for consolation literature. Genre offering comfort for grief or loss. Related to: elegy, lament. Classical and medieval tradition.
Also Known As
Comfort poem consolation verse solace poetry comforting elegy
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