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DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. But, it is easy to forget that poetry consists of metre, rhyme, styles, shapes, which every poet lear Great Poetry is so sublime that we often think that it can be written only by some kind of divine inspiration.
But, it is easy to forget that poetry consists of metre, rhyme, styles, shapes, which every poet learned, experimented, mended and adapted to his or her own pen. In his 'Ode Less Travelled', Stephen Fry teaches you those nuances and reveals the non-mysterious, but equally curious, parts of poetry-making. Fry writes poetry himself.
He is no Coleridge, Wordsworth or Shelley - he is honest about his modesty. He is a poetry lover, an enthusiast - like you and me - who scribbles his own few lines at his leisure time and now wants to teach you what he learnt. Since you are reading this - it's quite likely that you are a book-lover and it won't take you much of an effort to start reading Fry's book with your favourite poet's one next to it.
Get yourself a drink, take a seat in your comfy chair, get Fry's book and take your poet's one from the shelf. Read Fry's chapter 1 and then switch and read a line or two or three of your favourite poem. You will notice small, intricate techniques that your poet used when writing their verse. They knew what they were doing.
They knew where to use tetrameter or pentameter, where to try sonnet or epic, where to use ten syllables or nine. I would like to have a friend like Stephen Fry. With the same level of erudition, values and good manners as him. With whom you can drink and talk, not about trivial worldly politics, but about lives of poets, beauty of their poetry, and sophistication of their tools.
Until I meet Stephen Fry, I will enjoy his company through his brilliant books. Jun 28, Faye rated it really liked it Shelves: reading-challenge , poetry-plays-art , informational. I read this book thinking that if anyone could make me love poetry and want to write my own, that person was Stephen Fry.
Sadly, that does not appear to have happened. I enjoyed the level of passion with which he wrote it, but then again, I can enjoy pretty much anything that's presented by someone with a great passion for whatever it is, even if I don't share that passion myself. I tried some of the poetry exercises, and even found myself enjoying them. And after reading about all the different I read this book thinking that if anyone could make me love poetry and want to write my own, that person was Stephen Fry.
And after reading about all the different kinds of poetry and what makes them tick, I feel I now understand poetry, and I won't have to sit there anymore in puzzlement wondering why this poem is considered so great when the rhythm is all wrong, or why this poem is a masterpiece even though some of the "rhymes" are way off base. Quite often there is a name for these off-putting moments in poetry, and that makes it acceptable to the poetic community. These things I now understand.
Here's where this book lost a star for me - there are only a VERY few poems I can read and enjoy - ones that have a firm rhythmic structure and stick to it, ones that have a point and tell a story without being about love or beauty or anything depressive or crude, and I have recently discovered ones that are "concrete" poetry - and they are apparently not the ones that Stephen Fry enjoys.
He would ramble on forever in glowing terms about poems or styles that I didn't think were all that, and then breeze over the forms that made sense to me with a dismissive wave of his hand, feeling that they lacked imagination or daring or were simply a waste of time. Every time he would say something along the lines of "Some people may like this form," I felt like raising my hand.
This happens to me so often in life that I'm getting rather used to it. In fact, I long ago began to believe that if my opinion was different from the usual, that meant I was doing something right. So in a roundabout way, this book actually made me feel better about my taste or lack thereof in poetry.
In a nutshell, I think this book does what it claims it will do, and I would heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to "unlock the poet within. And that's okay, too. Dec 25, Alarie rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry. First, I adore Stephen Fry. I write poetry. He fills in a lot of history and background, giving samples from the masters.
Page after page of reading sc First, I adore Stephen Fry. Page after page of reading scansion can be very, very dull.
However, Fry also brings something to this topic that other style books lack - hilarity. I burst out laughing many times, especially during his self-deprecating moments. In fact, he keeps encouraging the reader not to be afraid to try the complex forms, saying you can surely do better than he did.
My favorite sections of the book were the more general discussions on the essential of words, the strength of poetry, and his always strong opinions on the state of writing. He does NOT address how to write free verse. He prefers form, but feels that any poet should experiment and branch out of his comfort zone. Basically, he feels you should know the rules before you break them. I even love his plea to readers not to send him their poetry. Jul 04, Robert Beveridge rated it really liked it Shelves: finished , cuy-co-pub-lib.
Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within Gotham, I think every poet at some point, no matter how much they've been raised on free verse, turns his or her attention to formal verse.
Thus the enduring popularity of form dictionaries my personal favorite has always been Dacey and Jauss' Strong Measures. After some general introductory chapters, Fry breaks a number of types of formal verse down and introduces us to each, with examples both from classic poets and from his own doggerel I suspect that Fry, who is far more accomplished than he lets on here, specifically wrote doggerel for inclusion here in order to make it all look a great deal easier. While the book is by no means exhaustive—I don't think I've ever run across a truly exhaustive form dictionary—it's a fine introduction to many of the most popular and enduring forms.
If you're a poet, even if you haven't discovered the lure of formal verse yet, it's well worth picking this up. You'll get there eventually. Feb 01, Pete daPixie rated it really liked it Shelves: poetry.
I just can't remember touching poetry during my incarceration at school. If I was asked I'd have probably said that a villanelle was a female pickpocket. Stephen Fry's book is a wonderful idiots guide through iambic pentameter, the trochee, spondee and all the twiddledy dees of meter and rhyme from Homer through to Zephaniah.
Mr Fry is a blast. If you are into poetry, then this book, I'm sure, will enrich your experience. If you hate poetry, then 'The Ode Less Travelled' is just what you need to I just can't remember touching poetry during my incarceration at school. If you hate poetry, then 'The Ode Less Travelled' is just what you need to introduce you into the magical world of stanzas, quatrains, ballads, odes, villanelles, sestinas, rondeaus, rondelets, limericks and sonnets.
It's a work book too, with exercises set at the end of each chapter to make sure the reader is paying attention. I casually picked this little gem up in the local library, and now I'm very tempted to aquire my own copy, to keep at hand, such is the wealth of information contained within. May 13, Jim Razinha rated it it was amazing.
I try to get outside my comfort zone sometimes and I got this a couple of years ago to do just that but didn't get too far. I was told Then I found out that Stephen Fry read it himself for an audiobook.
I'll listen to lecture series, but audiobooks are not my thing. Until this one. I read along with Mr. I loved his voice and he really made his words come alive.
For a book on poetry, his prose was better th I try to get outside my comfort zone sometimes and I got this a couple of years ago to do just that but didn't get too far. For a book on poetry, his prose was better than any poem I have ever read. And he gets into such technicalities! He doesn't spend much time on "free verse", which is what I really need explained to me - rhymeless, meterless words are But that's my failing.
I learned a lot apart from the entire subject, "ullage" is not a word I encounter in casual reading! Hearing him read while I read along was eminently helpful.
I don't intend to write anything as he suggests, beyond my sometimes witty and sometimes just groaning limericks, and I don't know how much I'll read, but I do think I'll return to this again. Jan 07, Artemis rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction , geek-culture , humorous , poetry , about-writing. I admit I never really cared for poetry. I still don't. Go look them up, you might be surprised. Anything by him, I was bound to enjoy.
It w I admit I never really cared for poetry. It was nice to read it years ago in university with Mr Fry's voice in my mind. His dry yet affable British wit shines through in his teachings about how poetry works, and in the examples he uses for demonstrations, both positive and negative. His personal touches are also effective in reminding the reader that the book was written by a real human being and not by some distant, disinterested English teacher tasked to go through a textbook.
Stephen Fry truly is one of the most talented celebrities out there. A humble and remarkably well-written book, to be read whether you like poems or not. Feb 01, Andrew Roycroft rated it it was ok. This is a deeply frustrating book. But I have a couple of big reservations about this book.
Firstly, the book is too strongly antagonistic towards modern poetry. Fry loves traditional form and habitually looks askance at more free styles of writing. That is fine, but it becomes a little repetitive after a whi This is a deeply frustrating book. That is fine, but it becomes a little repetitive after a while. The examples given in the chapter in comic verse are among the most graphic and utterly perverted words I have ever had the misfortune of reading.
Why, inflict this on an otherwise well thought out text? A helpful book rendered unpleasant by poor authorial and editorial choices. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. Carousel Next. What is Scribd? Explore Ebooks. Bestsellers Editors' Picks All Ebooks.
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