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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

Iseult

Literary Character
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 queen whose love for Tristan produces one of medieval literature’s great tragic romances.

Detailed Definition
Iseult, also called Isolde, is the central beloved of the Tristan legends and a figure of intelligence, healing, desire, and divided loyalty. Her marriage to King Mark cannot extinguish the love awakened by the potion she shares with Tristan. Medieval poets vary her portrayal between adulterous transgressor and victim of enchantment, giving her emotional and strategic complexity. She embodies the conflict between private passion and public duty, as well as love’s resistance to social naming.
Example
Example in poetry:
In medieval romance and later poetry, Iseult is the beloved whose love for Tristan challenges marriage, honor, and political order; A poet may present Iseult as a conflicted woman rather than a passive object of desire; The love potion can symbolize a passion that exposes hidden feelings while removing ordinary freedom of choice; A modern poem may distinguish Iseult of Ireland from Iseult of the White Hands to explore jealousy, identity, and the unequal consequences of love.
Additional Notes
Iseult, also called Isolde, is the Irish princess and later queen whose love for Tristan creates a defining medieval romance. Depending on the version, her intelligence, healing ability, and emotional courage complicate the image of a passive beloved. She represents divided loyalty, forbidden passion, courtly love, and the tragic conflict between personal fulfillment and marital duty.
Also Known As
Isolde Yseult Isolt Lady Isolde
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