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

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Axiology

Philosophy
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

Axiology is the philosophical study of values, including ethics and aesthetics. It examines what we deem good, beautiful, or worthwhile.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, axiology informs how poets weigh moral and aesthetic values, often through symbolic choices or tonal inflections. Poems may dramatize value conflicts—between duty and desire, truth and beauty—revealing how poetic language encodes cultural and personal hierarchies of meaning and worth.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Blake’s “The Tyger” interrogates the moral-aesthetic paradox of beauty forged in terror; Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” weighs familial labor against poetic vocation as competing values; T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets explores time, faith, and art through layered value judgments; Louise Glück’s poems often test personal desire against ethical restraint; Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” elevates poetic inspiration as highest good; Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” dramatizes tension between social custom (doxa) and individual value (axiological choice).
Additional Notes
Axiology bridges ethics (“what is good?”) and aesthetics (“what is beautiful?”)—a crucial duality for poetry, where moral and aesthetic judgments often intertwine. When a poem laments injustice (ethical axiology) while deploying elegant form (aesthetic axiology), it enacts axiological complexity. Students should note how poets like Auden or Heaney weigh competing values: truth vs. beauty, justice vs. mercy. In literary criticism, axiology helps frame debates about whether art should be morally instructive or aesthetically autonomous. Related to value theory, eudaimonism, and moralism.
Also Known As
Value theory Theory of value
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