In the poem "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell the author is expressing her feeling towards what is happening in her paradise. Her tone for the poem is depressed that her paradise is being destroyed for concrete jungle that will last only as miserable memory instead of a positive memory. I feel the author is trying to portray to us that what we think of a big city as cool and a big rush of fun isn't what we think, and being simple and peaceful is what the ideal life is like.
In "Big Yellow Taxi" the song I felt that she was more happy than sad compared to the text of the poem. But the mood is still the same feeling sorry or sympathetic for her living in the destroyed paradise she once loved. This shows me that the way that you listen or read something can effect the way you think of something or someone. It is strange that one version she is sounds happy and joyful and in the other she sound depressed and angry, which to me is confusing.
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