Frosty form of Prejudice?

"Well how about Christmas carols? Can we write on those?"
" I don't see why not, as long as don't write on something silly, like Frosty the Snowman."

What do you have against Frosty the Snowman?

You told the class that songs are a form of poetry, right? I don't see why the tale of a cheery snowman written by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins isn't considered poetry. That's akin to telling Dr. Seuss that the Cat in the Hat isn't poetry, but rather just an ordinary children's story. Do most songs and poems not have a good solid rhyme scheme? Yes. As for Frosty? I see a clear A-B-A-C rhyme scheme. Further proving my case is that the entire song is one cohesive story, also known as a narrative poem, written in similar fashion to The Cremation of Sam McGee, a classic Canadian poem. Some alliteration is also present in Frosty the Snowman, perhaps not quite to to the extent of Betty Botter by Mother Goose, but "heard him holler stop" certainly qualifies as the poetic device . Onomatopoeia, the use of words as noises, is also used throughout the song in much the same way that Edgar Allen Poe uses the device in The Bells. Would you deny that Poe's masterful piece of writing is a poem? No. So why is Frosty's "thumpity thump"-ing any different? Personification is giving human characteristics to non-human things. Things like dogs and dishes and trains and snowmen. Sure Frosty had some magic in him, but he was still a snowman, and snowmen are not actually men. So him "danc[ing] around" would then be considered personification, right? Maybe is isn't as well-written and interesting like Emily Dickinson's The Train, but the same basic idea is there. Also, Frosty the Snowman, without a doubt has irony, more specifically dramatic irony. Most of the listeners realizes that Frosty isn't going to last forever, unlike the sweet-tempered but dim-witted children in the song. Frosty's untimely death comes as no great surprise to the listeners. Frosty also has a clear theme for the children, that patience is a virtue. These children realizethat they will have to wait an entire year to see the icy snowman again. So yes, Frosty the Snowman is a poem, perhaps not one good enough to win the Nobel prize, but that is why you don't read War and Peace before Curious George.