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Rapturous

Mood
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 mood expressing overwhelming joy, ecstatic rapture, or transcendent spiritual elation, often conveyed through elevated diction and imagery.

Detailed Definition
Rapturous mood in poetry conveys overwhelming emotional or mystical elevation through soaring imagery, rhythmic intensity, and hyperbolic diction; it appears in devotional verse, Romantic odes, or love poetry—like Shelley or Rumi—where the boundaries of self dissolve in a flood of feeling, transforming language into a vessel for transcendent experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats is rapturous in imaginative flight; Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” bursts with rapturous celebration; In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth’s heart dances with rapturous joy; Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” conveys rapturous intoxication; In “The Tyger,” Blake’s awe borders on rapturous wonder; Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” ends with rapturous urgency about living.
Additional Notes
Rapturous mood denotes ecstatic transport, often spiritual or aesthetic; conveyed through hyperbolic praise, soaring imagery, and breathless rhythm—e.g., mystical or Romantic verse; overlaps with ecstatic, euphoric, and enraptured moods; more sustained than momentary joy.
Also Known As
Ecstatic Enraptured Transported Overjoyed Blissful Euphoric
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