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

Home › Glossary › Letter O

Obedience

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

Obedience as a psychological concept in poetry denotes compliance with authority or societal rules, often explored through internal conflict, moral tension, or sacrifice of personal desire.

Detailed Definition
Obedience raises moral questions about autonomy. Poetry examines it through constrained form, passive voice, or internal conflict, contrasting dutiful submission with the yearning for freedom or truth.
Example
Example in poetry:
In W.H. Auden’s “The Unknown Citizen,” obedience is praised by bureaucracy; In Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall,” obedience to tradition is questioned; In Sylvia Plath’s “The Applicant,” obedience is demanded in marriage; In Langston Hughes’ “I, Too,” obedience is rejected: “I, too, am America”; In Emily Dickinson’s “Much Madness is divinest Sense,” obedience to majority is critiqued; In Ocean Vuong’s “Aubade with Burning City,” obedience is absent, highlighting resistance.
Additional Notes
Obedience—compliance with authority—is often critiqued in poetry (Auden’s “Unknown Citizen”); differs from consent by its passivity; poetic techniques include bureaucratic language, passive voice, or ironic tone; students should consider power dynamics: Who demands obedience? Who resists?; note its link to conformity—obedience as social control.
Also Known As
Compliance Conformity Submissiveness Acquiescence Submission
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