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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

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Andreas Gryphius

Literary Character
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 Baroque German poet and dramatist, known for his sonnets exploring transience, mutability, and divine judgment; his dense metaphors and somber tone characterize the devotional and confrontational spirit of his age.

Detailed Definition
Gryphius’s sonnets, marked by vanitas themes and existential despair, reflect the trauma of the Thirty Years’ War. His works fuse religious piety with dramatic intensity. In poetry, he symbolizes Baroque melancholy, the fragility of human life, and the search for divine constancy amid earthly chaos, making him a frequent reference in meditative and elegiac verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Andreas Gryphius’ sonnet “Es ist alles eitel” uses the speaker as a memento mori persona confronting transience; In his drama “Leo Armenius,” poetic monologues reveal characters torn between faith and power; Gryphius’ religious lyrics construct a penitent “I” seeking divine grace amid earthly chaos; His use of Baroque allegory (e.g., “Tears of the Fatherland”) personifies suffering through collective national character; Gryphius’ sonnets often feature a stoic observer character mediating between despair and hope.
Additional Notes
Andreas Gryphius, a Baroque German poet and dramatist, crafted characters marked by existential anguish, transience (vanitas), and spiritual yearning; his sonnets and plays feature figures confronting mortality and divine judgment, making them key for studying how Baroque aesthetics shape literary character through metaphor, paradox, and emotional intensity.
Also Known As
Andreas Greif
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