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Noema

Philosophy
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

Noema, in Husserl’s phenomenology, is the intentional object of consciousness as it is meant or experienced, not as it exists independently.

Detailed Definition
Poetry captures the noema through subjective perception—how a tree, lover, or memory appears in consciousness, infused with meaning. This focus on lived intentionality shapes modern lyric’s inward turn and attention to the structure of experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
Edmund Husserl’s concept appears in William Carlos Williams’s "The Red Wheelbarrow," where the object is intended in its perceptual fullness; Wallace Stevens’s "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" presents the bird as noema across shifting consciousness; Elizabeth Bishop’s "The Fish" renders the noema of the creature as it appears to the angler’s attention; Jorie Graham’s "San Sepolcro" captures the noema of Piero della Francesca’s fresco in meditative gaze; the noema is central to phenomenological poetry that brackets assumptions to describe pure appearance.
Additional Notes
Noema (Husserl) is the object as intended in consciousness—not the real thing, but its meaningful appearance; phenomenological poetry (Williams, Bishop) captures noemata through precise, bracketed description; useful for analyzing how poems render subjective experience without reducing it to psychology or physics.
Also Known As
Intentional Object Phenomenal Object
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