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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Representation

Art
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

The depiction or presentation of people, objects, places, or ideas in art.

Detailed Definition
Representation concerns how art makes something present through image, symbol, likeness, or convention. It raises questions about accuracy, power, visibility, stereotype, and who has the authority to depict whom. In poetry, representation matters whenever a poem describes a person, culture, event, or landscape. A poet may examine whether language honors complexity or reduces a subject to an emblem, and may use self-conscious description to challenge inherited ways of seeing.
Example
Example in poetry:
In William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow,” the wheelbarrow and chickens represent an ordinary rural scene through precise visual details; A poem about a cracked statue can represent a fallen political ideal by describing its broken face and pedestal; Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” represents the fish so vividly that its scars and “five old pieces of fish-line” suggest endurance; A poet may represent grief through concrete images such as an empty chair, unopened mail, and a silent telephone
Additional Notes
Representation concerns how art selects, shapes, or interprets reality; it may be realistic, symbolic, or abstract. Compare depiction and abstraction.
Other Meanings of “Representation”
Also Known As
Depiction Representational Art
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