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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

Home › Glossary › Letter D

Du Fu

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

Tang dynasty poet revered for morally serious, historically grounded verse on war, hardship, family, and public duty.

Detailed Definition
Du Fu is often called a poet-historian because his poems bear witness to rebellion, poverty, displacement, and the suffering of ordinary people. His art joins technical mastery with compassion and civic conscience. In poetry, his name suggests moral gravity, humane realism, and the capacity of lyric speech to preserve both private feeling and the wounds of an age.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet might use Du Fu as an emblem of poetry shaped by war, exile, and public conscience; His poems about ordinary suffering can inspire modern political verse; Du Fu’s name may suggest compassion joined to historical witness; A poem could compare a refugee’s torn coat to the humane realism of Du Fu
Additional Notes
Du Fu is often called the poet-historian because his verse records war, famine, displacement, family separation, and public duty with humane precision. In poetry studies, he is valuable for showing how lyric feeling can become historical testimony. References to Du Fu may suggest moral seriousness, Confucian responsibility, exile, ageing, and the poet’s painful obligation to see private suffering within public catastrophe.
Also Known As
Tu Fu Dufu Du Shaoling Du Zimei Poet-Historian
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