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Big Yellow Taxi
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Now, do you too, believe that poetry is paradise?
Analysis of "Big Yellow Taxi"
Poetry is just the evidence of life.
If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
The poem "Big Yellow Taxi" was written by Joni Mitchell and uses the poetic techniques of metaphor and rhyme to convey the main theme of conservation and urbanisation.
Conclusion
Big Yellow Taxi Analysis
Joni Mitchell
About The Poet
Joni Mitchell composed an exciting and captivating poem which contains the poetic techniques of metaphor and rhyme.
In 1970, Joni Mitchell wrote this wonderful piece of poetry while she was on her first visit to Hawaii.
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Lauryn Attard
One morning in Hawaii, she woke up and saw lush, green mountains far in the distance, then she noticed that there were countless parking lots below her. This image inspired her to write.
Poetic Technique
Effect of Metaphor
Rhyme
The effect of metaphors in the poem is that it explains that we are not conserving nature and are urbanising the places that are becoming “paved.”
Rhyme is the repetition of similar vowel sounds, between or at the ending of words. They usually feature at the ends of lines in poems.
The Theme of "Big Yellow Taxi"
Examples of Rhyme
Joni Mitchell has successfully created a wonderful piece of poetry that portrays the theme of conservation and urbanisation.
Rhyme appears in the fourth stanza, second and fifth lines -
My brother is a pig
She is a giraffe!
Those children are monkeys
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
Examples of Metaphor
Effect of Rhyme
Metaphor appears in the first stanza, first and second lines -
The effect of rhymes in the poem is that it makes it easier to remember the theme of conservation and urbanisation. Rhyme also creates beat in the poem.
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
Poetic Technique
Metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which one thing is said to be something else