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Shared voice

Concept
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 poetic voice that merges multiple perspectives or identities into a collective utterance, blurring individual authorship.

Detailed Definition
Shared voice is a poetic perspective that speaks not as an individual but as a collective—community, generation, or species—using plural pronouns or generalized diction to express common experience; it fosters solidarity and universality, as in protest songs, choral odes, or ecological poetry addressing planetary concerns.
Example
Example in poetry:
In renga or tanka sequences, multiple poets adopt a shared voice through linked stanzas; The “We” in Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” creates shared voice for collective racial experience; In protest poetry like “I, Too” by Langston Hughes, shared voice speaks for marginalized groups; Anthologies like “The Norton Anthology of Poetry” curate shared voice across centuries
Additional Notes
Shared voice: A technique where the poem's narration or monologue is delivered not by a single speaker but by an ambiguous or collective entity, suggesting a communal experience or a blending of identities.
Also Known As
Union voice collective voice shared expression Collaborative voice combined voice communal voice
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