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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Weltanschauung

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

Weltanschauung is a German term for a comprehensive worldview or philosophy of life. It is a set of beliefs and values that shape an individual's or culture's perspective.

Detailed Definition
A Weltanschauung is a life-orienting framework. In poetry, it can be the vision the poem constructs—a particular way of seeing reality. Poetic works often articulate a specific Weltanschauung, be it Romantic, Existential, or Modernist. This concept helps understand a poem's philosophical stance, as it reveals the underlying assumptions about the world, life, and human nature that inform the text.
Example
Example in poetry:
The worldview of a poet like T.S. Eliot, as expressed in "The Waste Land," is a specific Weltanschauung of despair and fragmentation; The joyful, democratic vision of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" is a Weltanschauung; The grim, deterministic view in the poetry of Thomas Hardy is a Weltanschauung; The philosophical system implied in a poet's entire body of work is their Weltanschauung.
Additional Notes
Weltanschauung is a German term that means a comprehensive worldview or philosophy of life. It is a set of fundamental beliefs and values that shapes an individual's or a culture's entire perspective on reality, knowledge, ethics, and meaning. It is the cognitive and affective framework through which we interpret the world. In poetry, the Weltanschauung is the vision the poem constructs—a particular way of seeing reality that is expressed through its themes, imagery, and tone. Poetic works often articulate a specific Weltanschauung, be it Romantic, Existential, or Modernist. This concept helps understand a poem's philosophical stance, revealing the underlying assumptions about the world, life, and human nature that inform the text.
Also Known As
Worldview Philosophy of life Outlook Ideology
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