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The Movement

Movement
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 mid-20th-century group of English poets who favored plain language, formal control, and a focus on everyday English life

Detailed Definition
The Movement was a group of British poets in the 1950s—including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, and Donald Davie—who rejected Romantic excess and modernist obscurity in favor of clarity, rationality, and understated emotion; their poetry emphasized formal control, colloquial diction, and ironic detachment, reflecting postwar disillusionment and a preference for empirical observation over visionary transcendence.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Movement|1950s British poetry rejecting romanticism; Larkin, Amis favoring plain style; Anti-modernist clarity and skepticism; Post-war realistic verse group
Additional Notes
The Movement was a 1950s group of British poets (e.g., Larkin, Amis) reacting against modernism with clarity, plainness, and restraint.
Also Known As
British Movement 1950s poets Anti-modernist group Larkin movement
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