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 E

Elated

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

Expressing a mood of intense joy, exhilaration, or proud triumph, often conveyed through elevated diction, exclamation, or radiant imagery.

Detailed Definition
Elated mood in poetry captures a soaring sense of achievement or unexpected happiness, often through light imagery, ascending rhythm, and expansive metaphors; it appears in personal epiphanies or celebratory lyrics—like Dickinson’s moments of revelation—where the speaker’s spirit lifts beyond ordinary bounds, transforming fleeting joy into enduring poetic form.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats momentarily feels elated by poetic imagination; Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” radiates elated freedom; In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth’s speaker is elated by nature’s beauty; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” offers elated reassurance of belonging; Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” presents hope as an elated, persistent presence; In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou’s triumphant tone conveys elation over oppression.
Additional Notes
Elated mood conveys high-spirited joy, often from achievement or good news; expressed through light rhythm, upward imagery, and celebratory diction; related to jubilant, overjoyed, and exultant moods; differs from ecstatic in its grounded, human-scale happiness.
Also Known As
Overjoyed Thrilled Jubilant Ecstatic Delighted Euphoric Exhilarated Exultant Exulted Exulting Gleeful Joyous Triumphant Full of the joys of spring
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