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Movement Poets (UK)

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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

1950s British group favoring restraint, irony, and traditional forms

Detailed Definition
The Movement Poets (UK, 1950s) including Philip Larkin and Thom Gunn rejected modernist obscurity for clarity, formal control, and anti-romantic themes; their poetry emphasized everyday life, understatement, and traditional meters, reacting against what they saw as excessive emotionalism and experimentalism.
Example
Example in poetry:
Movement Poets (UK): 1950s British poets (e.g., Larkin) reacting against Romantic excess; example: Larkin’s “They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do.”
Additional Notes
Movement Poets (UK) were 1950s British group including Larkin, Gunn, Davie. Rejected neo-Romanticism for clarity, traditional forms. Emphasized rationalism and empiricism. Study in context with New Formalism.
Also Known As
British Movement group Larkin circle British anti-modernist Empirical poets
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