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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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Chekhov

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

Russian playwright and short-story writer known for subtle realism, emotional restraint, and lives shaped by missed chances.

Detailed Definition
Chekhov appears in poetry as a figure of quiet sorrow, irony, and the tragic tenderness of ordinary existence. His characters often long for change while remaining trapped in habit, memory, or social inertia. Poets invoke him to suggest pauses, silences, unspoken love, provincial rooms, fading estates, and the ache of lives that pass without dramatic resolution.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet might invoke Chekhov to suggest quiet tragedy beneath ordinary conversation; Chekhov’s name can signal restraint, irony, and the sadness of unfulfilled lives; A poem may use a Chekhovian orchard or waiting room to show change arriving gently but irresistibly; His presence in poetry often suggests compassion without melodrama
Additional Notes
Chekhov is useful in poetry less as a grand heroic figure than as a master of quiet disappointment, pauses, weather, rooms, illness, and lives that almost change but do not. A Chekhovian reference may suggest emotional understatement, ordinary sorrow, or the tragedy of missed possibilities. Students should look for tonal restraint: the drama lies in what is implied, deferred, or left unsaid.
Also Known As
Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Anton Tchekhov
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