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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 S

Satisfaction

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

Contentment arising from the fulfillment of a desire or need—in poetry, satisfaction is rendered through full-throated vowels, closing imagery, and completed narrative arcs, yet it is often earned and fleeting, carrying a note of loss as fulfillment signals the end of striving, appearing in pastoral peace, achievement odes, and reconciliation scenes.

Detailed Definition
Satisfaction in poetry rests through full-throated vowels, closing images, and fulfilled arcs—a meal eaten, a journey ended, a love returned. Poets contrast it with longing, making satisfaction earned and fleeting. It appears in pastoral peace, achievement odes, or reconciliation scenes. Satisfaction invites readers to appreciate the present, yet often carries a note of loss, as fulfillment signals an end to striving.
Example
Example in poetry:
Satisfaction in Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" where satisfaction is found in nature; In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," satisfaction is ambiguous; In contemporary poetry, satisfaction is often fleeting; In "The Waste Land," satisfaction is absent; In confessional poetry, satisfaction is often temporary; In romantic poetry, satisfaction is a goal.
Additional Notes
Satisfaction in poetry rests through full-throated vowels, closing images, and fulfilled arcs—a meal eaten, a journey ended, a love returned—contrasting with longing. In teaching, distinguish satisfaction from contentment: satisfaction is fulfillment of desire, while contentment is a settled state. Poets make satisfaction earned and fleeting, often carrying a note of loss. It appears in pastoral peace, achievement odes, or reconciliation scenes. Students should examine how poets use imagery of fullness, completion, and rest to convey satisfaction's earned, bittersweet respite.
Also Known As
Contentment fulfillment gratification pleasure ease
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