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Elated

Mood
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

Expressing a mood of intense joy, exhilaration, or proud triumph, often conveyed through elevated diction, exclamation, or radiant imagery.

Detailed Definition
Elated mood in poetry captures a soaring sense of achievement or unexpected happiness, often through light imagery, ascending rhythm, and expansive metaphors; it appears in personal epiphanies or celebratory lyrics—like Dickinson’s moments of revelation—where the speaker’s spirit lifts beyond ordinary bounds, transforming fleeting joy into enduring poetic form.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats momentarily feels elated by poetic imagination; Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” radiates elated freedom; In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth’s speaker is elated by nature’s beauty; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” offers elated reassurance of belonging; Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” presents hope as an elated, persistent presence; In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou’s triumphant tone conveys elation over oppression.
Additional Notes
Elated mood conveys high-spirited joy, often from achievement or good news; expressed through light rhythm, upward imagery, and celebratory diction; related to jubilant, overjoyed, and exultant moods; differs from ecstatic in its grounded, human-scale happiness.
Also Known As
Overjoyed Thrilled Jubilant Ecstatic Delighted Euphoric Exhilarated Exultant Exulted Exulting Gleeful Joyous Triumphant Full of the joys of spring
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