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Wordsworthian school

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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 tradition emphasizing nature, emotion, and the ordinary, inspired by William Wordsworth

Detailed Definition
The Wordsworthian school emphasizes ordinary language, nature as moral guide, and “emotion recollected in tranquility”; foundational to English Romanticism, it values sincerity, rural settings, and the sublime in the commonplace, advocating for poetry that speaks to universal human experience through humble subjects and reflective depth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Wordsworthian school emphasizes nature, emotion, and ordinary language, as in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; In “Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth reflects on nature’s moral influence; Another: poems that find the sublime in rural life, like John Clare’s “I Am”; Or contemporary poets like Mary Oliver, who continue Wordsworth’s legacy
Additional Notes
Wordsworthian school emphasizes ordinary language, nature as moral guide, and emotion recollected in tranquility; foundational to Romantic lyric, it values sincerity, rural settings, and the sublime in the commonplace.
Also Known As
Lake Poets tradition Romantic nature lyric Lyrical Ballads mode Cumberland school Lake Poets
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