Response to the poems "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below"

The mood and tone between the song and just reading it on paper is very different for the song "Big Yellow Taxi". Just reading the words you would think of it as a very sad or depressing song but if you add the music they had for it, it would sound joyful and cheery. It throws people off when they hear it and it's happy when the lyrics are sad. I think they should have made it a more slow and sadder melody than what they had.

For "Field Below" the mood and tone was not the same. Just like "Big Yellow Taxi", it was happy music but sad lyrics. The difference is that this music was even more happy for a reason i cannot think of. The tone and mood should have been made more to match the lyric, not to throw people off and confuse them. This should also have been more slow and sad music than they had.

Gummy Bear Poem

Gummy bears

are very rare

from way over there

but why would I care

about those bears

that are very gummy

and are so yummy

and go good with honey

which is good for bears

because they do care

about there honey

that is so yummy

because they are dummies

for that delicious honey

that would make them money

if it wasn't so yummy

because those dummies

ate all the honey

as well as the bears that are so gummy.

Mother to Son

There are many different examples of figurative language in the story. from no crystal stair to no carpet on the floor. They help get people's points across by naming other world examples to compare to their situations and not to mention it also could make it funny or even serious. The mood the poem was in was love and helping her son to don't give up and to push down the barriers out head because you can succeed if you try hard and never give up.

Character Decription - Junior

            Arnold Spirit, who everyone calls Junior, is the guy everyone picks on and pushes around. He only has one friend, Rowdy, who turns into an ape when he beats on people, but never does anything to Junior, but protects him from everyone or anyone who bullies him. In all fair in love and war it’s not Junior’s fault he was born with too much water in the brain and because of that he now has lisp and stutters a lot. He also has seizures but hasn’t had one in 7 years but is still capable of having them.

            But on the bright side he is really smart. In fact he is one of, if not the smartest kid in his reservation. The thing he really loves like monkeys love bananas is drawing. He dreams of being an artist because pictures show more than 1,000 words and since he has trouble speaking it’s the easiest way to get out what he is thinking.