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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Ontogeny

Philosophy
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

Ontogeny is the developmental history of an individual organism. Philosophically, it suggests personal becoming mirrors or diverges from cosmic or cultural patterns.

Detailed Definition
Poetry traces ontogeny through autobiographical fragments, growth metaphors, or stages of awareness. It explores how individual formation intersects with historical forces—making the life story not private but a microcosm of larger evolutionary or existential narratives.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Wordsworth’s The Prelude traces poetic consciousness from childhood; Elizabeth Bishop’s “In the Waiting Room” recalls girlhood epiphany of self; Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” roots vocation in familial lineage; Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” maps feminist self-formation; Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” reworks personal history through psychological development; Derek Walcott’s “A Far Cry from Africa” shows postcolonial identity emerging from cultural ontogeny.
Additional Notes
Ontogeny is individual developmental history. In poetry, it appears as autobiographical arcs: Wordsworth’s Prelude, Rich’s “Diving.” Students should track how personal becoming reflects or diverges from cultural patterns. Related to Bildung, individuation, and narrative identity. Professors can link it to life-writing and psychoanalysis.
Also Known As
Individual development Developmental process
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