# The Art of the Ode

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2017/10/23/the-art-of-the-ode/
- Published: 2017-10-23T21:41:31+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Author:** Ritwik Ghosh [](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/WP_20171023_16_57_15_Pro-2.jpg)
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Pages:** 64 **Year of Publication:** 2017 **Price:** Rs 150 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
162-5 (9789350451625)

_**About the Author**_
 Ritwik Ghosh was born in India. He was educated in India
and the United States and is now engaged in higher research in literature. He composes
original music in the Western classical tradition.

_**Teaser**_

_Ode: Stamps_

1

A child prances across the grass,
 From the sky, Stamps rain down gracefully. The
child will be stamped, Like a letter, to be sent off, To somewhere it did not choose.

2

The human will go through the institution
 On the conveyor belt of manufactured 
education, Out will tumble a bail of well-graded mediocrity, While stamping bad 
grades On that which is not limited by its limits.

3

On a new dawn
 Will walk a Child, In a new label-less world.

_**Contents**_
 Ode: Adventure / 9 Ode: Loss / 11 The Happy Whale / 13 Barcarolle:
Telephone pole / 17 The Spaceship / 18 Ode / 20 Rama / 21 Ode: Ruined worlds / 22
Ekalavya / 23 Ode: Bumblebee / 25 Ode: Carnival / 26 Ode: Forest / 27 Ode: Maya /
29 Ode: Nocturne / 30 Ode: Jungle / 31 Ode: Zoo / 32 Ode: Green / 33 Cavatina: Winter/
34 Ode: Stamps / 35 Ode: Poetry / 36 Ode: Mirrors / 37 Ode: Teddy bear / 39 Ode:
Rain / 40 Ode: Mohenjo-Daro / 43 Ode: Success / 45 Ode: Love / 47 Ode: Exonerated/
48 Elegy / 49 Hokku / 50 _Songs_ / 51