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 B

Boredom

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

A state of weary ennui arising from monotony or lack of stimulation.

Detailed Definition
Boredom in poetry is not trivial but a profound existential condition, signaling alienation or spiritual vacancy. Poets render it through repetitive structures, flat descriptions, and stalled narrative time. It becomes a critique of modern life or a prelude to rupture, as seen in modernist and surrealist works that use dullness to heighten sudden flashes of insight or absurdity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Boredom in John Berryman's "Dream Song 14" expresses irritation with every part of life; Margaret Atwood's "Bored" ruminates on boredom through mundane tasks like weeding; Theodore Roethke's "Dolor" examines monotony in an institutional office setting; Al-Tutili's "Seville" opens with "I was bored with old Seville / And Seville was bored with me"; Paul Verlaine's "Apathy" describes "intense boredom" sickening the soul; The poem "Bored" by Margaret Atwood gives examples of boredom from childhood to adulthood.
Additional Notes
Boredom in poetry is not trivial but a profound existential condition, signaling alienation, spiritual vacancy, or a prelude to rupture. Poets render boredom through repetitive structures, flat descriptions, stalled narrative time, and imagery of monotony or grayness. Modernist poets like T.S. Eliot and Charles Baudelaire elevated boredom to a diagnostic tool for cultural malaise. Teaching tip: contrast boredom with ennui, which carries a more refined, listless quality often linked to decadence or privilege. Boredom can function as a critique of consumer society or as a catalyst for sudden flashes of insight or absurdity, making it a versatile emotional register.
Also Known As
Tedium monotony dullness ennui listlessness
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