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Rocinante

Literary Character
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

Don Quixote's famously lean and worn-out horse in Cervantes's epic; symbolizes noble intent bound by frail physical reality.

Detailed Definition
Rocinante is the name of Don Quixote’s famous horse, a key companion in the story of the knight-errant. The name signals the poem’s direct link to Cervantes and to the comic, idealistic world of the original tale.
Example
Example in poetry:
“On Rocinante, his steed so tall,” invokes Don Quixote’s famously gaunt horse; Rocinante can symbolize idealistic wandering or comic persistence; “Like Quixote on Rocinante, he charged the windmills” uses literary allusion; a contemporary poem may call an old bicycle “my Rocinante”
Additional Notes
The proper name Rocinante in the line is a specific literary reference many readers may need to identify.; Found in the poem, The Ballad of Don Quixote by Richard
Other Meanings of “Rocinante”
Also Known As
Steed of Quixote Knight's Horse Dreamer's Mount
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