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Ecstatic utterance

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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

Poetic or spoken expression characterized by rapture, divine inspiration, or transcendent emotion, often mimicking prophetic or trance-like speech.

Detailed Definition
Ecstatic utterance is a poetic mode where the speaker expresses overwhelming spiritual, emotional, or mystical experience through non-rational, urgent, or incantatory language; it often employs repetition, neologism, and sonic patterning to bypass logic and access deeper states of being, as seen in the works of Rumi, Whitman, or the Surrealists.
Example
Example in poetry:
Pentecostal glossolalia transcribed as poetry; Saint Teresa of Ávila’s mystical writings in poetic form; Arthur Rimbaud’s “Je est un autre” — ecstatic dissolution of self; Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” — transcendent fusion of rider and horse in ecstatic flight.
Additional Notes
Ecstatic utterance prioritizes emotional overflow over syntax; study Rimbaud or Rumi. Note breathless pacing—differs from aphoristic precision.
Also Known As
Trance utterance rapturous dictation divine frenzy verse ecstatic revelation Glossolatric Verse
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