[New-Poetry] THE ODE LESS TRAVELLED

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Fry and Frost
 
Review by LEE TSE LING
 
 
THE ODE LESS TRAVELLED
Unlocking the Poet Within 
By Stephen  Fry
Publisher: Hutchinson, 357 pages
(ISBN: 0-091-79661-X)  
 
I HAVE a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry. This is an embarrassing  
confession for an adult to make,” says Stephen Fry in the foreword of The Ode  
Less Travelled. 
 
Well, maybe it would be if you wrote gosh-awful pap on a regular basis and  
published it on a blog. But the e-quivalent of boos, hisses and flung fruit  
aside, how would you know if it really was bad? 
 
Start by reading Fry’s latest bit of non-fiction, for within its pages  
awaits enlightenment. 
 
Enter, if you dare, the fantastic world of prosody, otherwise known as the  
principles of verse. In its four sections, metre, rhyme, form and diction rule, 
 and such exotic beasts as the Iamb and Spondee, the Antispast (not an 
Italian  hors d’oeuvre), Dactyl (nor winged terror), and the Molussus of Odes  
abound.  
 
 
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