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

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Educational Anthology

Education
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 collection of selected texts designed for teaching and learning. A poetry anthology may organize poems by period, theme, form, culture, or reading level and often includes notes or activities.

Detailed Definition
An educational anthology gathers poems for a particular classroom, course, or level of study, making a broad range of writers and traditions available in one volume or resource. Its selections may introduce literary periods, poetic forms, social questions, or shared themes such as love, war, childhood, and place. Editorial notes, glossaries, discussion questions, and biographical information often guide readers toward historical and formal context. In poetry education, anthologies are important because selection shapes the literary canon students encounter. They can preserve familiar works while also broadening study through diverse voices, languages, and perspectives.
Example
Example in poetry:
An educational anthology groups poems by theme and adds introductions, vocabulary support, and discussion questions for students; A teacher selects an educational anthology containing poems in English and translation to introduce global traditions; Students use an educational anthology to compare several poems about identity at different reading levels; A school anthology may include student poems beside established writers’ work to model revision and achievement
Additional Notes
An educational anthology often supplies introductions, notes, discussion questions, glossaries, and contextual materials alongside poems. These aids can support entry into difficult work, but readers should still form independent interpretations. Evaluate how the anthology’s organization and explanatory apparatus shape a curriculum, canon, or historical narrative.
Also Known As
Teaching Anthology School Reader Educational Poetry Collection Classroom Anthology
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