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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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Wrath

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

Intense, vengeful anger; fury with a desire to punish; in poetry, wrath is a powerful, destructive emotion, often personified or explored in its consequences, driving narratives of vengeance, conflict, and the fall of characters.

Detailed Definition
Wrath in poetry blazes through violent imagery, pounding rhythm, and divine or human retribution. It fuels epic rage (Achilles), prophetic denunciation, and political protest. Poets explore wrath's destructive power and its moral ambiguities. Wrath invites readers into the heat of injustice or betrayal, often questioning whether fury is justified. It can be cathartic or terrifying, and its expression often leads to ruin or transformation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Wrath in Homer's "Iliad" famously opens with "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles," setting the epic's central conflict; William Blake's "A Poison Tree" describes how wrath is nurtured in secret until it bears a deadly apple, showing the destructive power of suppressed anger; In John Milton's "Paradise Lost," the wrath of Satan and God's righteous anger drive the cosmic struggle; Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" portrays the Duke's wrath towards his former wife, implied through his chilling account of giving commands; W.H. Auden's "September 1, 1939" expresses wrath against political tyranny and the "blind skyscrapers" of a world gone mad; In Sylvia Plath's "Daddy," the speaker's wrath against her father and the Nazi archetype erupts in violent, exclamatory language, culminating in "Daddy, you can lie back now."
Additional Notes
Wrath is intense, vengeful anger with a desire to punish, distinguished from general anger (milder) and hate (a settled hostility) by its explosive, retributive energy. In poetry, wrath drives epic conflict, tragic downfall, and prophetic denunciation, often rendered through pounding rhythms, violent imagery, and imperative or exclamatory rhetoric. It appears in Homer's "Iliad" as Achilles' consuming fury, in Milton's "Paradise Lost" as Satan's defiance and divine justice, and in protest poetry as righteous outrage against oppression. Related terms include fury (more uncontrollable), indignation (more principled and less vengeful), and retribution (the punishment itself). Teaching tip: examine how poets use catalogs of violence, apostrophe to the wrongdoer, and abrupt caesurae to convey wrath's eruptive force. Wrath can be both destructive and cathartic; its expression often leads to tragic consequences or moral reckoning. Unlike simmering resentment, wrath demands immediate release, making it a powerful device for dramatic monologues and political verse. Poets like William Blake and W.H. Auden channel wrath into social critique, while confessional poets like Sylvia Plath use it to reclaim agency from personal betrayal. Wrath's intensity risks overwhelming the poem, so skilled poets often juxtapose it with moments of cold reason or bleak aftermath to heighten its impact.
Also Known As
Anger fury rage ire vengeance
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