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furnace

Noun
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 very hot enclosed chamber for heating metal or melting substances; in poetry, it symbolizes intense heat, industrial labour, or the crucible of change and destruction.

Detailed Definition
A furnace is a high-heat chamber used in metalworking or other industrial processes. In Blake’s poem, it helps create the image of the tiger as something forged in fire rather than naturally born.
Example
Example in poetry:
“In what furnace was thy brain?” from Blake’s “The Tyger” imagines a creator’s forge; A furnace is both a heating chamber and a metaphor for intense creation; “The furnace of war” turns heat into social violence; A contemporary line: “Her kiln-furnace fired grief into cups.”
Additional Notes
"Furnace" is a specialized heat-and-metalworking word here, tied to the poem’s forging imagery.; Found in the poem, The Tyger by William Blake
Also Known As
forge kiln incinerator
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