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South

Historical Location
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

Here, the southern war zone where the soldier has fallen; the phrase points to the South African conflict.

Detailed Definition
In Hardy’s poem, the capitalized South refers to the distant place where the husband has died, not just a direction. The phrase evokes the Boer War setting and the remoteness of the battlefield.
Example
Example in poetry:
“He—he has fallen—in the far South Land…” — the capitalized South Land can evoke a distant region shaped by war, exile, or colonial geography; “South” may be literal direction, a national region, or a symbolic warmer world; Langston Hughes’s Southern settings often carry racial and historical meaning; in Civil War poetry, “the South” can name both place and political division; capitalization gives the location added cultural weight
Additional Notes
The capitalized "South" in "far South Land" is a location reference tied to a specific historical conflict, so readers may need identification.; Found in the poem, A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy
Also Known As
southern meridional down south the South
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