It's gone

In the poems Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell and Field Below by Regina Skektor both have a very similar meaning in both of the poems. In both of the poems there meaning is you don’t know what you got until it’s gone which is described well in both of the poems. For example when they say “I wish I'd see a field below” that is what that person is missing. As that is an example of what that person is missing in that poem. That meaning is in both of the poems.

Second of all, what was the author’s purpose of writing the poems? As I said before the overall meaning of the poems is “you don’t know what you get till it’s gone”. Why the author wrote those poems are because they want to make the audience feel bad for them and understand why they feel that way. That was probably why those author’s wrote what they wrote.

There are many ways to describe the poems mood and tone but the best ways to describe them is that there heartbreaking and depressing for those people. Why they both feel that why is because there are both missing something. In their case that is nature getting replaced with something else. That is why they feel that why as they describe in the poems. That is the meaning of both of those poems.

As I said in the last paragraph the moods and tones in the poems are basically sad and depressing. But that is not always how it is why the poems turn into songs. A great example is the Big Yellow Taxi song being turned into a happy song. When the person sings the song I can almost picture her smiling while singing the song because she does not sound sad at all. But on the other hand the song Field Below sounded like a very sad song. How you know that is there is a piano playing and by the sound of the singers voice was sad.

As you can see not all songs and poems are alike. Overall that is what the meaning of the poems mean and also what was the author’s purpose of writing those poems.