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Electronic lyric

Genre
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

Lyric poetry influenced by or referencing digital or electronic culture

Detailed Definition
Electronic lyric refers to poetry that emerges from or responds to digital environments—email, chat logs, code, or social media—using their syntax, brevity, and immediacy as formal resources; Frank O’Hara’s conversational tone prefigures this mode, now expanded by poets like Danez Smith and Warsan Shire in networked expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tracy K. Smith’s “The United States Welcomes You” uses digital surveillance as lyrical motif; Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You” blends pop culture and intimate address like a text message; Warsan Shire’s “Home” circulates widely online, using viral lyricism; Danez Smith’s “not an elegy for Mike Brown” merges social media urgency with poetic form
Additional Notes
Electronic lyric uses digital media or electronic forms (e.g., generative poetry, interactive apps) as integral to its composition or reception—expands lyric subjectivity into networked, algorithmic, or multimedia spaces.
Also Known As
Cyber lyric digital confessional screen-born verse networked poetry Digital lyric New media poetry
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