A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Agitated

Mood
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 mood characterized by inner turmoil, nervous energy, or emotional unrest, often conveyed through erratic rhythm, urgent diction, or dissonant imagery.

Detailed Definition
Agitated mood in poetry conveys inner turmoil through fragmented syntax, irregular meter, or jarring imagery; it mirrors psychological distress, social unrest, or moral conflict, as seen in the dramatic monologues of Browning or modernist works like Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” where dissonance and urgency reflect a fractured psyche or a world in crisis.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” the frantic repetition and violent imagery (“I think I may well be a Jew”) convey an agitated mood of psychological turmoil; The speaker in “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe grows increasingly agitated as the bird’s refrain deepens his despair; In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot uses fragmented syntax (“Do I dare disturb the universe?”) to express an agitated inner conflict; W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” opens with a falcon “turning in the widening gyre,” establishing an agitated mood of societal collapse; In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool,” the abrupt, staccato lines (“We / Left school”) evoke an agitated defiance masking vulnerability; The chaotic rhythm and urgent tone in Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” (“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness”) create an agitated, almost feverish mood.
Additional Notes
Agitated mood in poetry often conveys inner turmoil, restlessness, or emotional disturbance; it may be signaled through fragmented syntax, irregular meter, or chaotic imagery—think of Sylvia Plath’s confessional verse or the storm metaphors in Romantic poetry; useful when depicting psychological tension or societal unrest; closely related to restless, frenzied, or turbulent moods.
Also Known As
Restless Nervous Distressed Upset Perturbed Turbulent vext unquiet vex'd Feverish
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