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Surrogate

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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

A substitute planet or sign representing absent energies. In poetry, surrogates stands as proxy stars or delegated cosmic roles.

Detailed Definition
Surrogate, reception kin, substitutes. Poets surrogate in metaphorical stands like Donne's. Literary proxies symbolize representation. The term's stand-in role poeticizes delegation, where surrogates fill voids, allowing motifs of equivalence, absence, and the vicarious poetry of stellar substitutions.
Example
Example in poetry:
In electional charts by Lilly, surrogate planets substitute absent rulers; Modern poet Heather McHugh in "The Proxy" surrogates absence's voice; William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" surrogates Viola's disguised love; In progressed poetry, surrogates fulfill natal promises, educating on vicarious roles.|John Milton's "Lycidas" surrogates the drowned with swain's song; T.S. Eliot's "Animula" surrogates timid wanderings.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Neighbor," surrogate shares the fruit; Walt Whitman's "The Proxy," surrogates the absent comrade.|In Emily Dickinson's "The Soul's Distinct," surrogate selects society.
Additional Notes
Surrogate planets fill voids, e.g., Mercury for absent Gemini. Poets proxy delegated stars in absent roles—related to interceptions; tip: in composites; enhances substitute influences in relational poetry.
Also Known As
Surrogate Parent (astrological)
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