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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

Pride

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 sense of self-worth and dignity that can manifest as healthy self-respect or destructive hubris; in poetry, pride is a central tragic flaw, leading to downfall or conversely, to noble defiance.

Detailed Definition
Pride in poetry strides through heroic boasts, defiant declarations, or quiet dignity. Poets explore both noble pride (self-respect) and fatal hubris (fall of Icarus). It appears in dramatic monologues, epic, and confessional verse, where pride masks fear or invites downfall. Pride shapes identity and conflict; its wound can be more painful than physical harm. Poets use pride to examine ethics, ambition, and the precariousness of reputation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Pride in John Milton's "Paradise Lost" where pride causes the fall; In John Donne's holy sonnets, pride is a sin; In William Blake's "The Tyger," pride is a theme; In contemporary poetry, pride can be healthy or hubristic; In "Ozymandias" by Shelley, pride is mocked; In dramatic monologues, pride often leads to downfall.
Additional Notes
Pride in poetry strides through heroic boasts, defiant declarations, or quiet dignity, exploring both noble self-respect and fatal hubris. In teaching, distinguish pride from arrogance: pride is a sense of self-worth, while arrogance is overbearing pride. Poets explore pride's role in identity and conflict, its wounds and downfalls. It shapes ethics, ambition, and reputation. Students should examine how poets use heroic imagery, defiant statements, and dramatic irony to convey pride's double-edged power—its capacity to elevate and to destroy.
Also Known As
Self-esteem dignity arrogance hubris vanity Hybris
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