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

Attachment

Psychology
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

Attachment: A deep psychological bond or emotional dependency on a person, object, or idea, explored in poetry as a source of both comfort and vulnerability, shaping identity and motivating actions.

Detailed Definition
Attachment in poetry underpins themes of love, loss, and longing. It manifests through recurring motifs, possessive language, and vivid sensory recall. Poets explore healthy and pathological attachment—to lovers, homelands, or memories—revealing how bonds sustain or ensnare. The tension between attachment and freedom drives elegy, love poetry, and meditations on transience.
Example
Example in poetry:
Attachment in John Keats' "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" shows Isabella's unhealthy attachment to her dead lover through the basil pot; Robert Pinsky's "The Hearts" describes attachment as the heart's "raison d'être and its perpetual suffering"; In "Orpheus," attachment is described as "something stretched between us like a whisper, like a rope"; Cate Marvin's "A Brief Attachment" portrays a bruising, physical attachment; Hassin Ur Rehman's "Particles of Her" explores identity formed through attachment; The poem "Attachment" speaks of "an invisible attachment" that ties the speaker across distance.
Additional Notes
Attachment in poetry underpins themes of love, loss, and identity, manifesting through recurring motifs, possessive language, and vivid sensory recall. Poetic exploration of attachment ranges from healthy bonding to pathological dependency, often in elegies, love lyrics, and meditations on transience. In psychological terms, attachment theory describes how early bonds shape adult relationships, and poets frequently dramatize these patterns. Encourage students to analyze how possessive pronouns and imagery of clinging, roots, or chains signal attachment. Attachment is closely related to dependency but implies a more mutual or emotionally resonant bond.
Also Known As
Bond connection affection devotion Love
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