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mockeries

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

Ridiculing or degrading acts that render something false or contemptible; in poetry, they represent scorn, the dismantling of dignity, or the harsh satirical treatment of a subject.

Detailed Definition
Here, mockeries means empty or meaningless substitutes for real funeral rites. Owen uses it to show that ordinary mourning rituals cannot properly honor the dead soldiers.
Example
Example in poetry:
“No mockeries now for them” makes mockeries cruel gestures of scorn; The empty medals became mockeries of the promised victory; Owen’s war poetry often opposes patriotic rhetoric to suffering bodies; In a protest poem, official applause may sound like mockery when justice has been withheld
Additional Notes
In “No mockeries now for them,” the word is used in a specialized poetic sense that may not be immediately clear to readers.; Found in the poem, Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen
Also Known As
mockery derision satire taunt
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