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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 E

Eager

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 poetic mood marked by enthusiastic anticipation, yearning, or passionate desire, often conveyed through urgent diction or forward-leaning syntax.

Detailed Definition
Eager mood in poetry conveys excited readiness through quick pacing, forward-leaning syntax, and vivid anticipation; it appears in dawn poems, love sonnets, or journey narratives—like Keats’s “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”—where the speaker’s keen expectation transforms the present into a threshold of possibility, infusing language with kinetic energy and hope.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Road Not Taken,” Frost’s speaker is eager to choose a path, though uncertain of consequences; Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” exudes eager anticipation for adventure (“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road”); In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats is eager to escape into the bird’s world; Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” ends with an eager question about living fully; Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” shows eager kinship in shared anonymity; In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou expresses eager defiance and resilience.
Additional Notes
Eager mood expresses enthusiastic anticipation or readiness; conveyed through forward-leaning syntax, active verbs, and bright imagery—e.g., dawn or spring motifs; related to zealous, fervent, and animated moods; differs from exuberant in its focus on future possibility rather than present joy.
Also Known As
Enthusiastic Keen Excited Avid Impatient
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