You Don't Know What You Have Until it's Gone

Authors Note: This is a reaction/response to the poems Big Yellow Taxi and Field Below.

    

       In these two poems they repeat the same meaning of you don't know what you have until it's gone. Like in "Big Yellow Taxi" the person is said that they "paved over paradise and put in a parking lot."  They could not take that back and will never become that paradise ever again. In the "Field Below" the character wishes there was a field below but that has been taken away also and will never be replaced. Both poems want the reader to feel sympathy and sadness. The author feels angry and disappointment for what people have done to their paradise or field. The music of big yellow taxi is the totally opposite of what I thought it would be. I thought It would be a sorrow song but it was more upbeat and fun then sadness would have been. The song to Field below fit it's poem because it had sorrow and sadness in it. I don't think Big Yellow Taxi sang the song right there should have been more sadness and disappointment in that song.