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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

Evangeline

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

Heroine of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s epic poem Evangeline, based on the real Acadian expulsion (Le Grand Dérangement) of 1755.

Detailed Definition
Though fictionalized, Evangeline embodies the Acadian people’s suffering and enduring love. In American poetry, she symbolizes tragic separation, faithful love across time and distance, and the human cost of colonial conflict. Longfellow’s work made her a cultural icon for themes of exile, resilience, and romantic devotion.
Example
Example in poetry:
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic Evangeline immortalizes the Acadian heroine as a symbol of faithful love enduring separation and exile after the 1755 expulsion.; Poets use Evangeline to represent tragic resilience and romantic devotion amid colonial conflict.; A poet might invoke her to explore themes of cultural displacement and the human cost of imperial policies.; In American verse, she embodies patient hope and the search for lost loved ones across vast landscapes.; Poets draw on her story to meditate on exile, memory, and the enduring power of affection.; Evangeline serves as a cultural icon for meditations on loss, reunion, and the romanticization of historical suffering.
Additional Notes
Evangeline, the heroine of Longfellow’s epic, embodies faithful love and cultural resilience drawn from the real Acadian expulsion of 1755. Though fictionalized, she symbolizes tragic separation and patient hope amid colonial displacement. Usage tip: use her journey across landscapes to explore themes of exile, memory, and romantic devotion; the dactylic hexameter of Longfellow’s poem offers a model for narrative rhythm in long-form verse. In American poetry she represents the human cost of imperial conflict and the ideal of enduring affection. Related concepts include Le Grand Dérangement and Romantic nationalism. Professors might assign comparisons with other exiled heroines, encouraging students to write responses that reclaim or critique her romanticization. Her story provides rich material for meditations on loss, reunion, and the poetic elevation of historical suffering into mythic endurance.
Also Known As
Evangeline Bellefontaine (Longfellow's heroine)
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