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Dr. Seuss was a major success in poetry because of his various eccentric characters used in his poems. Wendy Mass states this to demonstrate the idea: “Children and adults loved the mischievous cat [from The Cat in the Hat] in the stovepipe hat who did all sorts of things that good little boys and girls weren’t supposed to do.” (61). She uses this quote to support her idea: “I will hold [the fish] up high/As I stand on a ball/With a book on one hand! /And a cup on my hat! /But that is not ALL I can do!” /said the cat” (14). Notice how the poet describes not any regular cat, but a cat that can do all sorts of silly things that is physically impossible for a normal cat to do. In addition to this, Donnarae MacCann calls Dr. Seuss’s work “the beginning of a relatively new genre” because of his “new eccentrics”. The critic uses this quote from the poem If I Ran the Circus to show this:
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Thomas Fensch quotes L. Bechtel from The New York Herald Tribune who states how “the imaginings get wilder and funnier [and] the rhymes [get] more hilarious” in Dr. Seuss’s work. The critic uses this excerpt from Dr. Seuss’s work: “I’ll go to the far-away Mountains of Tobsk/Near the River of Nobsk, and I’ll bring back an Obsk/A sort of a kind of a Thing-a-ma-Bobsk/Who only eats rhubarb and corn-on-the-cobsk/Then people will flock to my zoo in a mobsk/ ‘McGrew,’ they will say, ‘does a wonderful jobsk.” (102). Dr. Seuss uses an abundance of nonsense in his poems; his usage of gibberish that brings enthusiasm to his words creates an attraction to his readers. Because of the whole library of imaginative books Seuss created, MacCann states, “Fanciful inventions characterizes all [of Seuss’s] stories, yet there is variety.” The critic uses this to demonstrate the idea: “Through three cheese trees/ Three free fleas flew/ While these fleas flew/ Freezy breeze blew/ Freezy breeze made/ These three trees freeze/ Freezy trees made/ These trees' cheese freeze/ That's what made these/ Three free fleas sneeze.” Seuss creates drivel that rhymes but yet does not mean anything. This “new genre” Seuss has created is the reason for him being a prominent children’s poet of the
Thomas Fensch quotes L. Bechtel from The New York Herald Tribune who states how “the imaginings get wilder and funnier [and] the rhymes [get] more hilarious” in Dr. Seuss’s work. The critic uses this excerpt from Dr. Seuss’s work: “I’ll go to the far-away Mountains of Tobsk/Near the River of Nobsk, and I’ll bring back an Obsk/A sort of a kind of a Thing-a-ma-Bobsk/Who only eats rhubarb and corn-on-the-cobsk/Then people will flock to my zoo in a mobsk/ ‘McGrew,’ they will say, ‘does a wonderful jobsk.” (102). Dr. Seuss uses an abundance of nonsense in his poems; his usage of gibberish that brings enthusiasm to his words creates an attraction to his readers. Because of the whole library of imaginative books Seuss created, MacCann states, “Fanciful inventions characterizes all [of Seuss’s] stories, yet there is variety.” The critic uses this to demonstrate the idea: “Through three cheese trees/ Three free fleas flew/ While these fleas flew/ Freezy breeze blew/ Freezy breeze made/ These three trees freeze/ Freezy trees made/ These trees' cheese freeze/ That's what made these/ Three free fleas sneeze.” Seuss creates drivel that rhymes but yet does not mean anything. This “new genre” Seuss has created is the reason for him being a prominent children’s poet of the