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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

exaggeration

Device
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 figure of speech that overstates or magnifies reality for emphasis or comic effect

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Detailed Definition
Exaggeration in poetry, also known as hyperbole, is the deliberate overstatement or magnification of reality for rhetorical emphasis, emotional intensity, or comic effect, serving to heighten imagery, convey extremity of feeling, or critique social norms; from the metaphysical conceits of Donne (“I could love you ten years before the Flood”) to the satirical excesses of Pope (“A hundred kings, a hundred ages past”), exaggeration stretches literal truth to reveal deeper psychological or moral truths, leveraging impossibility to express authentic human experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s “My bounty is as boundless as the sea” exaggerates love’s depth; Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” exaggerates social invisibility; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” exaggerates paternal tyranny as Nazi; Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” exaggerates Moloch’s reach; Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips” exaggerates body as “mighty”; Ocean Vuong’s “Aubade with Burning City” exaggerates war’s sensory overload.
Additional Notes
A rhetorical device extending beyond the truth in description; strengthens emotional impact. Core of hyperbole. Use to convey intensity of feeling. Common in love and war poetry. Study Shakespearean sonnets. Distinguish from lying; intent is artistic emphasis. Enhances vividness and engagement.
Also Known As
Overstatement Hyperbole Grandiloquence Amplification
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