Big Yellow Taxi & Field Below response

Author's note: I am going to do a short response to the two poems of Big Yellow Taxi, by Joni Mitchell and then the other poem of Field Below by Regina Spektor.

In the two interesting poems, they both relate to each other because they both are missing something to do with nature, or where they used to live. The poems both are depressing or sad, for the tone, while in the mood of the poems, they both are sad, or feeling alone. Both poems miss something, and they can't possibly get it back. You don't know what you have, until it's gone.

When I listened to both of the songs for the poems. The poem Big Yellow Taxi, was more up-beet and energetic and happy. While when I listened to the song Field Below, it was still a depressing sound, like it sounded in the poem. Therefore possibly the true meaning in Big Yellow Taxi isn't supposed to be depressing, but just telling a story of a young person, still happy, but missing something. On the other hand, the Field Below poem was just like the song, because it was a saddened story, or depressing, and the music was slow and meaningful.

I believe that the author's of the two poems did a great job, but when it came to the music, they should have changed it. The Big Yellow Taxi music should have been slower, like I expected it to be, because of the tone and mood of the poem. For the Field Below poem, the music was perfectly fine, because it was some-what of a depressing, slow song that fits to the poem. I believe that both of the author's did a good job on all of it, and I especially like how they relate to each other.

Parodies

Author's Note: These are two parodies of the poem This is just to say by William Carlos Williams. These two poems are about the novel Deadly.

I’m sorry I have loved you
I know you don’t feel the same
You were just there

And you can not
be to blame
you must have saved your love
for a very special day

forgive me mister
you were just there
my eyes couldn’t resist
your handsomeness stare


I have breathed
in the air
That the sickness is in
In which so many others have

I bet
you didn’t know
You breathed in too
Until that one fatal night
Where you might just not wake up

I’m sorry for the sickness
And the curse
at hand
I just didn’t know
That you felt that bad too



These two short poems are about our group book Deadly, by the author of Julie Chibbaro. The first is a love poem, about Prudence who has fallen in love with her job, and with her boss. She can’t have him though, because she is only a teenager, while he is a 30 year old man, who doesn’t need nor want love in his life. On the other hand, the second short poem is about the disease and sickness that a cook was carrying around, and making everyone around her sick, and dying. The problem is, this woman Mary Mallon, doesn’t know that she carries a sickness that can kill anyone besides her.
The mood and tone of these poems is mostly depressing because it’s about a young girl that has fallen in love with someone, which she can’t ever have. While in the other poem, it’s about an older woman who is slowly killing people around her, unless doctors and policemen can bring her in and cure her.

Parodies

The sickness is a curse
But isn’t love to
Happiness Is sadness
Are you sad too?
It starts with a woman
Then a man
It’s like a disease
A curse at hand

Every time I sneeze
Will you say bless you please
Because when you sneeze
You stop and can’t breathe
And soon to be told
I will not be there to hold
As I sit here in pain
I can’t be to blame
And sorry doesn’t explain
I can’t lie
But goodbye



These two short poems are about our group book Deadly, by the author of Julie Chibbaro. The first is a love poem, about Prudence who has fallen in love with her job, and with her boss. She can’t have him though, because she is only a teenager, while he is a 30 year old man, who doesn’t need nor want love in his life. On the other hand, the second short poem is about the disease and sickness that a cook was carrying around, and making everyone around her sick, and dying. The problem is, this woman Mary Mallon, doesn’t know that she carries a sickness that can kill anyone besides her.
The mood and tone of these poems is mostly depressing because it’s about a young girl that has fallen in love with someone, which she can’t ever have. While in the other poem, it’s about an older woman who is slowly killing people around her, unless doctors and policemen can bring her in and cure her.

mother to son response

Author’s note: this is a short response for the short poem Mother to Son, by Langston Hughes.

This poem could have many different meanings to it. The mother is telling her young son that life can’t and isn’t perfect, even if you wish it were to be. In this poem Mother to Son, there are different examples of figurative language, such as “life for me ain’t no crystal stair”. That quote is a metaphor, meaning that her life, and everyone else’s life in the world, isn’t perfect, no matter how hard you try it to be.

One the other hand, the mother is saying to her son, that he should keep on moving forward with his life, and not look back on all of the hard times he has had. She’s talking about how her life has been, and that his life will be the same; with ups, and downs throughout his lifetime. Langston Hughes can relate to this short poem, because it was part of his life. He hasn’t had the best life in the world, like he wishes.

There are different tones that you could come up with for this poem, but to me, the tone would have to be protective, sympathy and inspirational, to all young children, if they ever read this. The mood in this story is most likely caring, stern, and patient, because of how the read must feel, and how the mother must feel saying that to her son, because he must learn how to deal with life; and that it isn’t “a crystal stair”.

is she dead or alive?

Author’s note: This is a word choice and description about a girl named Shari Cooper from the novel Remember Me, by the author of Christopher Pike.

A senior in high-school that has just figured out what she wanted to do with her life, and who she wants to spend it with. This five-foot four; eighteen year-old has dark blond hair that she wore at shoulders length in layered waves. Her eyes were bright and green as the grass during spring day, and her straight-toothed white glistening smile won “best smile” in her junior year in high-school; with her big cherry lip glossed lips. The last night she was alive she wore a plain yellow t-shirt and dark blue skinny jeans, with blue Nikes sneakers. Most girls were jealous of her looks, but she thought she was just average looking, like any other girl in the world.

In the midst of having a dare-devil, and cheating boyfriend named Daniel, she also has to take care of her sleep-walking, six-foot two, brown curly haired brother; With his wacked-out black shining haired girlfriend. Yet, she has another problem. She is dead. Splat! Someone had pushed her down a balcony at a party one night, and now her life is ruined. Even though she is a ghost roaming around earth, she still takes care of her family and friends, with her true love that has died a few years ago, the charming, pro-baseball player, college student young man named Peter.

Throughout the adventurous few days that she was scared to death, she had found the answers she was searching for, thanks to very own “superman”, or Peter; who has given her all of her answers. While she walks the empty streets of California, she finds her investigator for her murder scene and follows him back to the apartment where she had died. Night mares come rushing back into her head while she comes up with ideas of what all happened. The nightmares are so terrible that she starts to tear-up, just like a leaking water faucet.

On that very night of the party and murder, she had talked to spirits or ghosts thanks to her best friend Jo. They had used her body to communicate with them, and that scared the crap out of her. She lay down on her back and the people at the party pretended that she had died, so it could start up the ghost communication. Apparently it had worked, because a few minutes later, one spirit that everyone recognized, had talked through her, to them. The spirits name was Peter that had died two years ago, from a truck running over him. The young high school girl was so frightened; she woke up from the trance, and ran out of the room crying, onto the balcony, where she had died a few minutes later.

This young girls view of what all happened had frightened her to death, but she finally understands what had all happened. Someone had pushed her. This strong and brave teenager went through a lot, and all she asked for in return was to be remembered. She was remembered as the young, popular, beautiful eighteen year-old woman named Shari Cooper.

Remember Me

Author’s note: The book Remember Me by Christopher Pike, has one main theme to it, but there are also others. Here is an essay of one of the themes, such as Bravery.

Shari Cooper was just an eighteen year-old senior in high school, when her life flashed before her eyes, and ended. She doesn’t quite know how she died, except that she has fallen head first into cement, from a four story building. Everyone thinks she has committed suicide, but in fact, she had not. She becomes brave and chooses to seek out who had killed her, even though she is now dead to the world.

When Shari had died, she didn’t know anything about what was going on. She had to find her way through what had happened to her and how she can comfort her family members, to let them know she’s alright. “I’m told everything’s going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That’s what saddens me most about dying. I’ll never know.” In that quote it shows that she finally has overcome her fears and has moved on that she is now a ghost, and that she can only walk among the living.

Between her trying to find her murderer, and trying to figure out who to be now, and where to go, she also has a dilemma. She must hide and run from The Shadow. The Shadow is a monstrous creature that preys upon ghost souls. It seeks into their hearts and scares almost every ghost there is, until you concur your fear and stick up for yourself. Shari did stick up for herself because she learned how to be brave enough to go straight up to her personal Shadow and learn why this creature was haunting her.

In another novel that I am currently reading, the main character Prudence Galewski from Deadly is yet another story that has a theme of bravery. Just like in the book Remember Me, the theme is bravery because Prudence has followed her heart and found a job working with all older men, and she gets to work with sicknesses and bacteria’s. Everyone around her seems to disagree that she has made the wrong choice; that she should have stayed in school and became a typist, like almost every other girl has become. Instead she skipped out of school and followed her dream of helping other people become healthy.

As you can see in both novels the themes revolve around bravery for the main characters, and how they have overcome how they feel. Even though Shari Cooper has died in the book Remember Me, she still lives among the living and has overcome fears of her own. Since she has faced The Shadow and fought to finally figure out that she is dead, and how she died, she can now be ready to move on with her so-called life.

character description

Character description:

The main character in the novel Remember Me by the author of Christopher Pike is named Shari Cooper. Shari is a senior in high-school that has just figured out what she wanted to do with her life, and who she wants to spend it with. This five-foot something; eighteen year-old has dark blond hair that she wore at shoulders length in layered waves. Her eyes were bright green as the grass, and her smile won “best smile” in her junior year in high-school. Most girls were jealous of her looks, but she thought she was normal looking.

In the midst of having a boyfriend named Daniel, taking care of her sleep-walking brother, and his wacked-out girlfriend, she has another problem. She is dead. Someone had murdered her at a party one night, and now her life if ruined. Even though she is a ghost roaming around earth, she still takes care of her family and friends, with her true love that has died a few years ago, Peter.