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Naturalist Movement

Historical And Literary Periods
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 late 19th-century literary movement emphasizing realism, scientific observation, and the influence of environment and heredity on human behavior. Associated with Émile Zola and influenced by Darwin's evolutionary theory.

Detailed Definition
The Naturalist Movement influenced poetry through emphasis on observation, scientific frameworks, and environmental determinism. Poets engaged with Darwinian and naturalistic thinking. This movement appears in poetry through detailed observation of nature and environment, engagement with scientific and naturalistic thinking, deterministic views of human behavior and environment, depictions of urban and working-class life, and establishment of naturalism as a framework for poetic observation and social criticism.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem that uses unvarnished, often bleak detail to depict the life of the lower classes, stressing the influence of social environment and heredity on fate, characteristic of the Naturalist Movement; A work that rejects sentimentality, using scientific objectivity to describe a harsh urban or rural landscape; A narrative poem where the characters are victims of overwhelming social or biological forces; A piece that focuses on raw, animalistic human drives and struggles for survival.
Additional Notes
The Naturalist Movement (late 19th century) emphasised determinism and social realism. Poetic expressions reflected human struggle within environmental and biological forces, often blending documentary tone with empathy.
Also Known As
Naturalism Naturalist Era
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