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 P

Partial narrator

Concept
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 speaker who reveals only part of a story or experience, often ambiguously

Detailed Definition
Partial narrator is a poetic speaker who reveals only fragments of a story, often with gaps, uncertainties, biases, or incomplete knowledge, creating an unreliable or limited perspective that invites reader interpretation. Common in trauma narratives, historical poetry, and dramatic monologues, this technique mirrors how memory and identity are constructed from shards rather than wholes. The narrator might omit key details (“I saw her once— / at the market, years ago. / She wore blue. Or was it green?”), contradict themselves, or foreground doubt, making the act of telling as significant as the tale. This approach challenges the lyric “I” as transparent witness, instead presenting subjectivity as provisional and fractured.
Example
Example in poetry:
I saw her once— / at the market, years ago. / She wore blue. Or was it green?; He told me the story— / or maybe it was his brother. / The details blur; They say she sailed west— / but the ship’s name? The year? / Lost to wind and tide; I remember the house— / white with green shutters. / Or was it yellow?
Additional Notes
Partial narrator reveals only fragments of a story, often with gaps, uncertainties, or biased perspective. Common in trauma narratives and unreliable narration. Students should use selective detail to imply larger truths. The omissions become as meaningful as the revelations. Compare with dramatic monologue.
Also Known As
limited speaker fragmentary voice incomplete persona Abbreviated perspective
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