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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 I

Indifference

Psychology
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 psychological state of apathy or emotional neutrality; in poetry, it can convey a character's numbness, the failure of compassion, or the chilling effect of despair on feeling.

Detailed Definition
Indifference in poetry adopts flat, dispassionate tones and sparse imagery, often as a critique of modernity or a shield against pain. Poets use it to depict bureaucratic cruelty, spiritual numbness, or stoic acceptance. Indifference can be more chilling than hatred, as in poems about genocide or neglect. It challenges readers to feel what the speaker denies, exposing the moral cost of emotional withdrawal.
Example
Example in poetry:
Indifference in Charles Baudelaire's "Spleen" poems where the speaker feels indifferent to the world; In T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men," indifference is a spiritual condition; The poem "Indifference" explores emotional neutrality as a defense; In war poetry, indifference to suffering is often critiqued; Modernist poetry uses flat tones to convey indifference; The speaker in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is indifferent to social norms.
Additional Notes
Indifference in poetry adopts flat, dispassionate tones and sparse imagery, often as a critique of modernity or a shield against pain. In teaching, distinguish indifference from apathy: indifference is lack of concern, while apathy is lack of emotion. Indifference can be more chilling than hatred, as in poems about genocide or neglect. Poets use it to depict bureaucratic cruelty, spiritual numbness, or stoic acceptance. Students should examine how poets use minimalism, detached narration, and imagery of blankness or silence to convey indifference's chilling effect.
Also Known As
Apathy unconcern disinterest coldness neutrality Neglect
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