Where's the Nature

Authors Note: This is a short piece to get a 9 or higher in theme.

          The poem “Big Yellow Taxi” is about a girl that grew up in a town that was paved over and was turned into a big city that she then grew up in. For “Field Below” it was gain about a girl that grew up in a town that was remade into a large city. Both authors had a meaning to write these songs. For “Big Yellow Taxi” it was written because she grew up in a big city. So it started out with a lot of land and nature, but seeing how it is now a city, she uses “They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot” to show that it lost all the beauty and nature. For “Field Below” it is about the same thing, she grew up in a big city that started beautiful with nature but they took it away with putting up the city and ruining the beauty. For both poems, the tone would be sad because they missed their “paradise” of the nature.

          For both of the poems the mood was different from what I expected from the song. “Big Yellow Taxi” was a happy song but sad words so I had some mixed emotions about that poem/ song. But for “Field Below” it was what I expected because I thought it was going to be a really sad sounding song. The piano of the song in “Field Below” really made it sound even sadder. The mood and tone of both songs would be sad because they both lost their nature that they missed.