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

Disconsolate

Mood
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 mood of profound sorrow and hopelessness, devoid of solace, often expressed through stark imagery, slow rhythm, and language of irrevocable loss.

Detailed Definition
Disconsolate mood in poetry expresses inconsolable grief through stark imagery, broken rhythm, and raw vulnerability; it appears in laments, post-loss verse, or confessional poetry—like Plath or Hardy—where the speaker’s sorrow resists consolation, laying bare the depth of human suffering with unflinching honesty and emotional precision.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Raven,” Poe’s speaker is disconsolate after the bird confirms he’ll never see Lenore again; Emily Dickinson’s “After great pain, a formal feeling comes” describes the disconsolate numbness following grief; In “Fern Hill,” Dylan Thomas mourns lost youth with disconsolate longing; Sylvia Plath’s “Tulips” conveys disconsolate exhaustion in hospital recovery (“I have nothing to do with explosions”); In “One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop’s final stanza reveals disconsolate loss beneath controlled form; Thomas Hardy’s “The Voice” expresses disconsolate yearning for a dead lover (“Can it be you that I hear?”).
Additional Notes
Disconsolate mood implies inconsolable grief or sorrow; conveyed through heavy rhythm, weeping imagery, and unresolved endings—common in elegies; closely tied to dejected, mournful, and forlorn moods; stronger than sorrowful due to its sense of irremediable loss.
Also Known As
Heartbroken Grief-stricken Miserable Woeful Sorrowful
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