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imploring

Archaic Terms
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

To beg or plead with intense earnestness and desperation; conveys a sense of urgent appeal, often used in poetic and dramatic contexts to show emotional vulnerability or critical need.

Detailed Definition
The term 'imploring' conveys a sense of deep emotional appeal or desperation. In the context of the poem, it describes the earth's sad expression as it looks up at the sky, suggesting a yearning for something beyond its reach. This word evokes a strong image of longing and vulnerability, enhancing the poem's themes of despair and hope.
Example
Example in poetry:
"the sad earth, with moist imploring eye, Looks wide and wakeful at the pondering sky" (begging, beseeching); "An imploring glance for mercy" (plea); "She raised imploring hands to heaven" (prayer); "The imploring cry of the hungry" (suffering); "His voice was imploring, soft, and sad" (tone)
Additional Notes
The word 'imploring' is used to describe the earth's pleading gaze, emphasizing its sorrowful and desperate state.; Found in the poem, There is an awful quiet in the air by Hartley Coleridge
Also Known As
beseeching entreating supplicating pleading gaze
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