Dr. Seuss
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born March 2, 1904 and he died September 24, 1991, 87 years later, of cancer. He was an American writer, poet, and cartoonist and was most widely known for his children’s books written and illustrated by himself. Geisel was not an actual doctor ( Dr. Seuss 1). In fact, when he became editor-in-chief of his school’s magazine of Dartmouth College, he would sign his work as “Seuss”; later in life he added “Doctor” in front. Geisel’s father, Theodor Robert, and grandfather were brew masters in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts. His mother, Henrietta Seuss Geisel, often soothed her children to sleep by "chanting" rhymes remembered from her youth. Geisel credited his mother with both his ability and desire to create his very well-known, unique writing style which include: many rhymes, special rhythms, and new, imaginative creatures and words (All About Dr. Seuss 1).
Most of Geisel’s works are written using simple end rhymes that make his stories sound more pleasing to the ears. For example, in these lines from One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, “Did you ever fly a kite in bed?
Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head?
Did you ever milk this kind of cow?
Well, we can do it. We know how.
If you never did, you should.
These things are fun and fun is good” he uses the style of a couplet to pair his rhymes together.
Dr. Seuss’ works were written for children but he often hid political issues within them. He wrote the book One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish in 1960 which was the start of the Civil Rights Movement. In the first stanza of the story, one of the two narrators, Ned describes the many different fish he sees all around him. He describes how the fish around him vary in m...
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...e stood
Just as long as it could
Before somebody lifted the Lorax away.
What was the Lorax?
Any why was it there?
And why was it lifted and taken somewhere
From the far end of town where the grickle-grass grows?
The old Once-ler still lives here.
Ask him. He knows”.
In this example of sixteen lines, Geisel uses his words, grickle-grass, Lorax, and Once-ler. There are more imaginative words he uses past these sixteen lines of his work (Wiley 176).
Dr. Seuss is a great role model for those who are looking to create a new brand. His creativity is like no other. He is an inspirational author and human being. He has accomplished so much just by being persistent and creative. Just like Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. To Theodor Robert Geisel and Henrietta Seuss Geisel. His father was a successful brewmaster. All of his grandparents were German immigrants. His father managed the family brewery and later was a supervisor of Springfield’s public park system. The family brewery was closed because of the Prohibition his father had to get a different job he got the park system job from the mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts John A. Denison.
Dr. Seuss is an important figure in the lives of children everywhere. His stories are children’s classics that are fun to read and also tackle some real life issues. Dr. Seuss’s political views are very apparent in his some of his books like The Butter Battle Book, which discusses the issues of the Cold War.
Theodor Seuss was born in Springfield, Mass. on March 2, 1904 and died on September 24, 1991. He graduated from Dartmouth College. Dr. Seuss was a children's author who target young readers. His first book was "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and was followed by many other famous stories such as, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" and to one of his most famous books "The Cat in The Hat". Dr. Seuss is a well know author world-wide.
Written with rhyme, but no meter and lines containing 9 to 12 syllables, Good has a long and voluminous shape. Maloney uses smaller, more subtle rhyme scheme at the end of each line to give his poem limber form. He uses the last syllable of the last word to create the alternate rhyme scheme. As the length of each line changes throughout the poem, the lines create a visual of a basketball being
The quote stated in the above paragraph is one of his many exact representation of his views on the world. Dr. Seuss is well known for writing many of the children's books my generation has grown up with, but is also known for inspiring and
Rhymes are two or more words that have the same ending sound. Songwriters and poets often times use rhymes to help their piece flow better, or keep the audience or readers engaged. Billy Joel’s song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” is filled with rhymes, with a rhyme in almost every single line: “Brando, the King and I, and the Catcher In The Rye / Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new Queen / Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye” (line 6-8). Billy Joel uses the rhymes to move from one topic to the next, and the song is even in chronological order from 1950 to 1989. The rhyme schemes of the song are end rhymes as well as perfect rhymes. On the other hand, the poem is completely free verse, or without a single rhyme. This makes the poem less artistic and harder to remain engaged and interested. In addition to rhyming, allusions are another way of displaying artistic
Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, MA on March 2, 1904 as Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss At Work). He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth; postgraduate, Oxford and Sorbonne( SV DO or C; S, DO or C) (Geisel, Theodor Seuss). Seuss became the editor-in-chief for Dartmouth’s Jack-o-lantern, the college’s humor magazine. It was now when he started signing his works with the pseudonym, Dr. Seuss. After his studies became too much to handle, he quit college and toured around Europe. When he returned home he began pursuing a career in cartooning (All About Dr. Seuss). He illustrated a collection of children’s saying called Boners. These sayings were not a huge success. He pushed for his original book, To Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street to be published seventeen times.
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Theodor Robert and Henrietta Geisel. Mulberry Street in Springfield, made famous in Dr. Seuss' first children's book And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street!, is less than a mile southwest of his boyhood home on Fairfield Street. Geisel was raised a Lutheran. (Morgan & Morgan, 1996, p. 36) Geisel enrolled at Springfield Central High School in 1917 and graduated in 1921. Geisel attended Dartmouth College, graduating in 1925. At Dartmouth, he joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the humor magazine Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern, eventually rising to the rank of editor-in-chief. While at Dartmouth, Geisel was caught drinking gin with nine friends in his room. (Wikimedia Foundation, 22 March 2014) As a result, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that he resign from all extracurricular activities, including the college humor magazine. To continue work on the Jack-O-Lantern without the administration's knowledge, Geisel began signing his work with the pen name "Seuss". Geisel was encouraged in his writing by professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey, whom he described as his "big inspiration for writing" at Dartmouth. Upon graduating from Dartmouth, he entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn a PhD in English literature. At Oxford, he met Helen Palmer, who encouraged him to give up becoming an English teacher in favor of pursuing drawing as a career.
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities” (Seuss). Theodor Seuss Geisel was Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1902 to a German family. He had two sisters named Marine and Henrietta; Henrietta died of pneumonia at the age of five. Marine was two years older. His father worked at the zoo, which influenced his art with a love of animals at a young age, and his mother stayed at home. To please his father, who wanted him to be a college professor, Ted went on to Oxford University in England after he graduated high
On March 2nd, 1904, the world got its first glimpse of the man who would forever change the world of children’s literature. Theodor Seuss Geisel was born to Henrietta and Theodor Robert Geisel on this day in Springfield, Massachusetts. He had one older sister, Marnie, who was his hero and best friend. She was the basis of many of his stories. Later, his parents would have another daughter, Henrietta, but the family was struck by tragedy when she died of pneumonia. Henrietta Sr. and Theodor Robert reacted to this disaster by investing all of their love and focus into their remaining two children (Levine, 9).
The first element to analyze when looking at “The Fish” is figurative language. The reader is drawn to this element because of its heavy emphasis throughout the poem. Elizabeth Bishop profusely uses similes with the intention of heightening the sensation of fishing. She writes:
Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. His father worked in the family brewery, Kuhlmbach & Geisel, which locals pronounced, "come back and guzzle” until prohibition. His mother’s maiden name was Seuss. She was the daughter of a baker in Springfield. Seuss had an older sister named Marnie (Kibler, 1987).
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He was a cartoonist, writer, and poet. Under the pen name of Dr. Seuss, he wrote many well known children’s books, such as Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat and The Lorax. His birthday, March 2nd, is now the date for National Read Across America Day.
Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as, Dr. Seuss, is an American author and illustrator. He is known mainly because of his children’s books like ‘The Cat in the Hat’ and ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ which were some of his most famous works. Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on March 2nd, 1904. Dr. Seuss published his first children’s book, ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street’ in 1937.
Seuss won countless number of prizes including the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, Caldecott Honor Medals, and several doctorates, his primary motivation, his wife Helen, suffered from many lengthy and threatening illnesses including cancer. She ultimately committed suicide in 1967 and in 1968 Geisel remarried to an old friend, Audrey Stone Diamond. Along with a second wife, Geisel acquired his first and only children, Lark, fifteen at the time, and Lea, who was eleven. Although it was clear Geisel always wanted to have children, he and his wife were unable to. Instead, he would boast of a more-than-just-imaginary daughter, Chrysanthemum-Pearl. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, his second children’s book to be published, was dedicated to “Chrysanthemum-Pearl (aged 89 months, going on 90).” He even included her on Christmas cards, along with Norval, Wally, Wickersham, Miggles, Boo-Boo, Thnud, and other make believe