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 S

Subject

Philosophy
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 subject is the conscious individual or self, the 'I' of experience. It is the thinking, acting being with agency, distinct from the object of perception.

Detailed Definition
The subject is a central concept in philosophy, from Descartes to phenomenology. In poetry, the subject is often the lyric 'I' or the poem's speaker. Modern poetry has problematized this subject, questioning its unity. Poets explore the fragmentation, construction, and death of the subject. This makes poetry a place to examine personal identity and its limits, giving voice to the complexities of being a self in the world.
Example
Example in poetry:
The "I" who speaks in a lyric poem, like Shakespeare's sonnets, is the subject; A poem that explores the fragmentation of the self, like the poetry of Paul Celan, deconstructs the subject; The persona in a dramatic monologue is a constructed subject; A poem that uses the second person, "you," can implicate the reader as a subject, as in many poems by Frank O'Hara.
Additional Notes
The subject is the conscious individual, the "I" or self, who is the agent of experience and action. In philosophy, it is the thinking being, distinct from the object of perception. In modern thought, from Descartes to phenomenology, the subject is often central. However, this unified, autonomous subject has been radically questioned by poststructuralism and psychoanalysis, which see it as a construction of language and unconscious forces. In poetry, the subject is often the lyric "I" or persona. Modern poetry often explores the fragmentation, construction, and even the "death" of the subject. This makes poetry a place to examine personal identity, its limits, and its complexities.
Also Known As
Self Ego Lyric I Conscious agent
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