Poem Compare

Authors Note: I have read both of these, and listened to the music.I chose these two poems because they both have the same topic, the environment. They also have the same mood, sympathetic. To me it seems both of these were written in the hippie era, due to the music and how both authors sang it. 

Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They took all the trees
Put 'em in a tree museum
And they charged the people
A dollar and a half just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Hey farmer, farmer
Put away that DDT now
Give me spots on my apples
But leave me the birds and the bees
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And a big yellow taxi
Took away my old man
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

"Field Below" by Regina Spektor

I wish I'd see a field below
I wish I'd hear a rooster crow
But there are none who live downtown
And so the day starts out so slow
Again the sun was never called
And darkness spreads over the snow
Like ancient bruises
I'm awake and feel the ache
But I wish I'd see a field below
I wish I'd see a field below

I wish I'd see your face below
I wish I'd hear you whispering low
But you don't live downtown no more
And everything must come and go

Again the sun was never called
And darkness spreads over the snow
Like ancient bruises
I'm awake and feel the ache
I'm awake and feel the ache
But I wish I'd see a field below
But I wish I'd see a field below
I'm awake and feel the ache
But I wish I'd see a field below
I'm awake and feel the ache
But I wish I'd see a field below
I wish I'd see a field below
I wish I'd see a field below

I have read both of these, and listened to the music.I chose these two poems because they both have the same topic, the environment. They also have the same mood, sympathetic. To me it seems both of these were written in the hippie era, due to the music and how both authors sang it.

I think that the music for "Big Yellow Taxi" is quite a contradiction. The music I heard was way too up-beat to fit with the poem. It would make sense if Joni Mitchell was a hippie, then i would understand her music choice and how she chose sing it.

"Field Below" had better music choice to me, but I still don't like how she sang it. Her voice was to crackly and it seemed that she meant it to be that way. I found the tone to be longing, and the music completely fit it. Regina Spector did  great job of keeping the tone in the music as well.