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Elbow

Anatomy
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

The joint where the arm bends. In poetry, it may represent effort, crowding, companionship, or an awkward angle of the body.

Detailed Definition
An elbow introduces bend and pressure into a poetic image. It may rest on a table in fatigue, jab through a crowd, brace a worker against a task, or touch another person in a quiet signal. Because elbows are practical rather than conventionally beautiful, they can ground a lyric in ordinary physical life. Their angular shape also suits poems concerned with discomfort, resistance, cramped spaces, or the unpolished reality of human closeness.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Robert Frost's "Mending Wall," physical labor can be evoked through bent elbows lifting stones; "His elbows were two hinges in the long afternoon" compares the joint to a mechanism and emphasizes repetitive work; "She leaned on her elbows at the windowsill, listening for rain" uses posture to reveal waiting; "The child skinned an elbow and learned the rough grammar of pavement" makes the elbow part of a concrete childhood memory
Additional Notes
Its bend gives the body an awkward angle; “elbow room” also introduces ideas of crowding and social pressure.
Also Known As
Cubital Joint Olecranon
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