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disjunctive line

Device
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 line that resists linear connection, creating fragmentation

Detailed Definition
A disjunctive line is a verse line that breaks syntactic or logical continuity, often through abrupt shifts in diction, image, or perspective; used in modernist and postmodern poetry, it reflects fragmentation of consciousness or reality, challenging readers to reconstruct meaning from deliberately disjointed elements, as in the work of Gertrude Stein or John Ashbery.
Example
Example in poetry:
Disjunctive line examples show syntactic breaks within a line disrupting normal flow, e.g., Emily Dickinson’s lines with dashes causing interruptions; lines with false starts or parenthetical phrases; verses where grammatical meaning is postponed to next line.
Additional Notes
disjunctive line: A line of poetry whose syntax or meaning is intentionally disjointed, fragmented, or only tenuously connected to the preceding or following lines. Related: Fragmented line; common in Modernist and Postmodernist poetry to reflect a sense of alienation or broken reality.
Also Known As
Fragmented line disjointed line broken verse discontinuous line Ashbery line
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