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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

Propertius

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 Roman elegist known for passionate love poetry, mythological allusions, and introspective meditations on desire and loss.

Detailed Definition
Propertius’s "Elegies" to Cynthia blend personal passion with learned myth, influencing Ovid and later European love poetry. In poetry, he appears as the archetypal love-sick poet, symbolizing the fusion of erotic obsession and literary erudition, and the elegiac mode as a space for emotional and intellectual play.
Example
Example in poetry:
Propertius constructs the lover-poet persona in his elegies, especially in "Cynthia" poems, where desire and literary ambition intertwine; His use of mythological exempla (e.g., Apollo and Daphne) reframes personal emotion through classical character; In Elegy 3.1, Propertius declares himself the “Roman Callimachus,” shaping his poetic identity through literary lineage; Later poets like Pound and H.D. adapt Propertius’ fragmented, allusive style to create modern elegiac personas.
Additional Notes
Propertius, a Roman elegist, crafted a poetic persona centered on obsessive love for “Cynthia”; his literary character blends personal vulnerability with learned allusion, pioneering the subjective, emotionally conflicted lover whose voice influenced later European love poetry and the confessional lyric tradition.
Also Known As
Sextus Propertius
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