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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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Brecht

Historical Figure
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

German playwright and poet who pioneered epic theatre and Marxist-inspired drama

Detailed Definition
Bertolt Brecht used alienation effects to provoke critical thought about society, war, and capitalism. His works like "Mother Courage" blend poetry and politics. Poets reference him to explore didactic art, moral ambiguity in crisis, and the role of the artist as social critic.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bertolt Brecht appears in 20th-century political poetry as a theorist of alienation and epic theater; Poets reference Brecht’s “Verfremdungseffekt” to disrupt emotional complacency; His “Threepenny Opera” inspires satirical verse on capitalism and hypocrisy; Modern protest poets cite Brecht’s commitment to art as social critique; Brecht’s exile becomes a metaphor for the displaced intellectual; Poets use Brecht’s didactic style to challenge lyrical subjectivity.
Additional Notes
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German playwright and poet who developed “epic theatre” and Verfremdungseffekt (alienation effect); his poetry blends political critique with irony and didacticism; in historical poetic contexts, Brecht represents Marxist aesthetics, anti-fascism, and the poet as social engineer—useful for analyzing poems that disrupt lyrical illusion to provoke critical thought (e.g., “The Solution” or “To Those Born Later”).
Also Known As
Bertolt Brecht
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