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outside temporality

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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

Poetry that suggests being beyond or outside the flow of normal time

Detailed Definition
Outside temporality describes a poetic mode that transcends linear time, existing in mythic, eternal, or dreamlike realms where past, present, and future coexist or dissolve, often used in mystical, elegiac, or visionary verse to access timeless truths.
Example
Example in poetry:
A mythological event described as if it is happening now and always, removed from linear, human time; A poem where the speaker exists in a state of continuous present, looking both backward and forward without a sequential timeline; The use of grammatical tense to place events outside the typical human framework of cause and effect; T.S. Eliot's idea of the "simultaneous existence" of all literary works.
Additional Notes
outside temporality: The poetic exploration of concepts or states of existence that transcend the limitations of time (past, present, future); related to non-temporal and often found in philosophical or mystical verse.
Also Known As
atemporal timeless outside time
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