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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Iconography

Art
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

The study and use of images, symbols, and motifs within art. In poetry, it helps readers trace recurring visual meanings across a work or tradition.

Detailed Definition
Iconography examines the subjects, symbols, attributes, and visual conventions that give artworks cultural meaning. A dove, crown, skull, ladder, halo, or broken mirror may carry associations shaped by religion, mythology, politics, and popular culture. In poetry, iconographic reading considers how recurring images gather force across lines or poems. It also asks whether a poet repeats inherited symbols faithfully, revises them, or exposes the assumptions they carry.
Example
Example in poetry:
In W. H. Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts," the painting's images of Icarus, a ploughman, and a ship create an iconography of ordinary life ignoring suffering; A poem about a dove, an olive branch, and floodwaters can use biblical iconography to suggest peace after catastrophe; Sylvia Plath's repeated moon imagery can function as iconography for distance, femininity, and unstable reflection; A contemporary elegy might use photographs, empty chairs, and extinguished candles as an iconography of mourning
Additional Notes
Iconography is the study or use of recognizable images and symbols, especially those with cultural, religious, artistic, or historical associations. Track repeated figures, objects, colours, and gestures, then ask how their meanings shift within a poem or sequence. Compare motif, symbol, emblem, and allegory. Study hint: distinguish a private image from one that draws on a shared visual tradition.
Also Known As
Iconology
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