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 D

Dependency

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

Reliance on another for emotional, physical, or psychological support.

Detailed Definition
Dependency in poetry explores power imbalances, vulnerability, and the fear of abandonment. It appears through pleading tones, images of clinging or leaning, and narratives of caretaking or addiction. Poets use dependency to illuminate intimacy's complexities, from tender mutual need to toxic enmeshment, often in love poems, elegies, or dramatic monologues where the speaker's fate hangs on another's presence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Dependency in Charlotte Smith's "SONNET [57] LVII. To Dependence" calls dependence "heavy, heavy are thy chains"; Sylvia Plath's "In Plaster" discusses how dependency can both heal and harm; Tim Steele's "Dependent Nature" examines the dependent nature of power; Eva Vázquez Tarrío's "La dependencia" explores emotional dependency in relationships; In "My Dependance," the speaker would rather be watched than left alone; William Carlos Williams' "The Red Wheelbarrow" shows how meaning depends on simple things.
Additional Notes
Dependency in poetry explores power imbalances, vulnerability, and the fear of abandonment through pleading tones, images of clinging or leaning, and narratives of caretaking or addiction. Poets use dependency to illuminate intimacy's complexities, from tender mutual need to toxic enmeshment, often in love poems, elegies, or dramatic monologues. The term is closely related to attachment but implies a more one-sided reliance. Teaching tip: examine how a speaker's language reveals dependency through supplication, repetition of the beloved's name, or imagery of being held or carried. Dependency can also critique social structures, such as colonial or economic relationships.
Also Known As
Dependence reliance neediness clinging codependency Powerlessness
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