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Dadaist 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

Poetry associated with the Dada movement, embracing chaos and anti-art

Detailed Definition
Dadaist verse is poetry associated with the early 20th-century Dada movement, characterized by irrationality, typographical experimentation, sound poetry, and anti-bourgeois sentiment; it rejects meaning in favor of spontaneity, absurdity, and political provocation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Dadaist verse: Tristan Tzara’s random word cut-up poetry; Hugo Ball’s sound poetry “Karawane”; Poems rejecting syntax and meaning; Collage and nonsense verse from Dada movement
Additional Notes
Dadaist verse: Poetry of the Dada anti-art movement (1916-c.1924); characterized by the use of chance, fragmentation, collage, and nonsense to protest WWI and the bourgeois culture that fueled it.
Also Known As
Anti-art verse Nonsense poetry Absurdist Dada verse Anti-rational Dada poetry Dada poem
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