Nature's Perfections

Author’s Note: This is a response to two poems called “Big Yellow Taxi” and “Field Below”. I am going to explaining the meaning, purpose, tone and mood. Both of the poems are songs as well. They have things similar and different but similar purposes. “Big Yellow Taxi” is sung by Joni Mitchell and Counting Crows. It is about someone trying to stop people from ruining nature to put up big buildings and cities. “Field Below” is sung by Regina Specter. “Field Below” is about a woman who lives in a sky scraper but she wishes she lives in the country where she could look out her window and sees a field of flowers.

Have you ever heard the song “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell? Or have you ever heard the song “Field Below” by Regina Specter? Did you know that they both started as poems? A lot of songs actually start as poems. Even though they are songs they have a great purpose, meaning, and show great tone and moods.

The purposes of these poems are similar but different in little ways. The purpose of “Big Yellow Taxi” is to inform us that we are ruining nature by putting up big cities. The meaning is to tell us to never forget how beautiful nature is and we don’t truly know how amazing it is until it’s completely gone. Nature is as precious as finding gold in a cave. We need to cherish it. The meaning of “Field Below” is that you don’t know how lucky you are if every day you get to see fields and sunsets when you look out your window and not a sidewalk of a big city. Her purpose of telling us this is to tell us to cherish our time in the country because we don’t know when we will see it again.

As you can see the purpose and the meaning are sort of similar but the tone and mood are even more similar. Both of these poems are about nature and how people are taking it away and how big cities are affecting it. The mood of “Big Yellow Taxi” is sympathetic and bitter and the tone is helpful and determined. The mood and the tone are almost identical in the two poems.

In conclusion,these two poems