Believe it or not, Dr. Seuss DOES NOT look like a cat with a red and white hat. He looks like a regular Joe.
The modern-est form of a poem is a song, well that's what my fellow classmates agreed on in ELA class and I most definitely think they're right! Everyday people listen to songs, which are poems so it is the most commonly present as songs in our daily lives. In class I see about 5 people with music on ALL THE TIME. I’m talking about Robert Townsley, Michael Felix, Justinne Soriano, Monica Orozco and George Canvas. Without the music, song lyrics become a poem that can be read more ‘like a poem’ (in the form of a poem). Different styles of poems are present in different styles of songs that really relate to specific teenagers. For example: An emo song would have depressing lyrics and people who feel that depressed & sad would be touched by the lyrics. I guess this is why so many people listen to the song’s lyrics instead of reading poems. Honestly, I prefer song as well. I'm just modernized :P But i really enjoy reading poetry as well. Actually! Scratch that! I prefer poems over songs because I can actually feel the deeper meaning.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
WHAT THE?! WHO THE?! WHERE THE?! Guess what? That’s Dr. Seuss’s real name. Amazing huh? I never thought he'd have such a ‘normal’ name, let alone a first name at all. It never crossed my mind that Dr. Seuss was not a cat with a hat, but when I realized that he must be a person, I guessed that he would’ve been about 30-40 years of age, at most. What shocked me most was to find out that he was D . E . A . D, dead. I thought he was healthy and young but he died last century! There is A LOT I don't know about Mr. Seuss. I don’t think that there’s a soul on Earth who doesn’t know who Dr. Seuss is. We've all HEARD of him but is there really anything we KNOW about him? Like how he started his career or, why he wrote books the way he did. All I know about Mr. Seuss is that he writes children books, and I’m sure that’s how much everyone else knows as well. WOW! I am very glad that I chose this poet because not only can I learn new things, but so can my fellow classmates! Theodor Geisel lived from March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991. He was an American writer and cartoonist, most widely known for hischildren's books written under the pen names Dr. Seuss, Theo, LeSieg and, Rosetta Stone. He published 44 children's books, often characterized by imaginative characters and rhyme. His most celebrated books include the bestselling Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. Numerous adaptations of his work have been created, and he was also known as the world's first rap artist. ‘Read across America’ is an initiative on reading. It was created by the National Education Association. A part of this project was the National Read across America Day, an observance in the United States held on March 2, which is the birthday of Dr. Seuss. He was born in Massachusetts to Henrietta and Theodor Robert Geisel. His father was a descendant of German immigrants and inherited the family brewery one month before the start of Prohibition and later supervised Springfield's public park system and zoo. Mr. Seuss was raised in the Lutheran faith and remained a member to the end of his life. Geisel attended Springfield's Central High School, and entered Dartmouth College in fall 1921. He joined the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the humour magazine ‘Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern’, and eventually rose to the rank of editor-in-chief. He was caught drinking with friends in his room and as a result, Dean Craven Laycock insisted that he leave all extracurricular activities, including the magazine. Geisel started signing his work under the name ‘Seuss’, in order to continue work on the ‘Jack-O-Lantern’ without the administration's knowledge. Six months into his work for the magazine, his first work signed ‘Dr. Seuss appeared (the Judge where his weekly feature Birdsies and Beasties appeared). Geisel’s professor of rhetoric W. Benfield Pressey encouraged him to write, whom he described as his "big inspiration for writing". Geisel enrolled at Lincoln College, Oxford, striving for a ‘Doctor of Philosophy in literature’. He met his future wife, Helen Palmer at Oxford. They married in 1927, and returned to the U.S without earning a degree. Following several years of poor health, Geisel died of throat cancer on September 24, 1991, in San Diego, California. He was cremated and his ashes, scattered. Four years after his death, on December 1st 1995, UCSD's University Library Building was renamed Geisel Library. This action was to honour Geisel and Audrey for their devotion to improving literacy and contributions they made to the library.
The Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Garden opened in 2002 in his birthplace of Springfield, Massachusetts; This Garden features sculptures of Geisel and his many of his characters. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Governor of California) and First Lady Maria Shriver announced that Geisel would be included in the California Hall of Fame, on May 28, 2008. Google temporarily changed its logo to commemorate Geisel's birthday on March 2nd, 2009. At Dartmouth, it is a tradition for the students returning from the trips, to stay overnight at Dartmouth's Ravine Lodge, where they are served green eggs and ham for breakfast in honour of Dr. Seuss. Mr. Seuss`s honours includ two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award and the Pulitzer Prize. Geisel's early artwork usually included shaded texture of pencil drawings or watercolours. In the postwar period he used pen and ink, normally just black, white, or one or two colors. Books like `The Lorax`used much more colour. Geisel's figures in his artwork are often rounded and kinda droopy. He enjoyed drawing architects and his endlessly varied and free-standing stairways his most common creations. Geisel evidently liked drawing outlandish arrangements of feathers or fur. Geisel's images often conveyed motion vividly, like how he was also fond of drawing hands with interlocked fingers, which looked as though the characters were twiddling their thumbs. He evidently had most motion using hands.
AND THERE YOU HAVE IT~ A CRASH COURSE ON THEDORE SEUSS GEISEL
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