Poem vs. Music

Author’s Note: This piece of writing is to compare the music of “Big Yellow Taxi” and “Field Below” to the poem and analyzing both of them and showing how they are similar and different.
We have read two poems and listened to the music of them. These two poems were called “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell and “Field Below” by Regina Spektor. “Big Yellow Taxi” was about this girl that lives in New York and things start to be taken away from her, such as trees, her father, putting up parking lots taking down all the free land. She was telling us the reader, that you don’t know what you have until it’s taken away from you. The poem called “Field Below” this is also about people taking away what she has she isn’t able to see fields while she is looking out her window she didn’t miss it until it was gone. Both of the tones of these poems are depressed and the mood for both of them is sympathetic.
The music was very different than I thought it was going to be. The mood and tone for the “Field Below” poem was the same but the mood and tone for the “Big Yellow Taxi” wasn’t. The song made it seem like she was happy and made me feel happy just by how the music was so upbeat compared to the poem. I think she should have made the music more slow and sad because that’s what her lyrics were telling us. I didn’t like the way the music was played because it didn’t make sense. I thought the singer of “Field Below” did a good job expressing the tone because her music reflected her lyrics.