"Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below"

Both of the songs "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below" are very sad and depressing when you read though them. They talk about sadness and missing something, but if you listen to the actually song and not just the lyrics, it completely changes how you feel when you hear it. "Field Below" is a slow song with rain in the background and a sad person singing it, and that is mainly what you would expect. But when you listen to "Big Yellow Taxi", it is completely different from what you would expect. The singer sings the song really fast and upbeat, and almost sounds happy. Instead of being sad when you hear it, it makes you think that the person has moved on and is no longer sad about it.

So Good

ChOcOlAtE mIlK
aS sMoOtH aS sIlK
a TaStEy TrEaT
i CaN't WaIt To MeEt
ChOcOlAtE iS gOoD
fOr ThE sOuL
iN mY fRiGe ThErE iT sToOd
MaN i Am On A rOlL
sO nOw I eNd ThIs HoRrIbLe RhYmE
iF yOu LiKe ThIs PlEaSe GiVe Me A dIme
BeCaUsE tHiS tOoK qUiTe SoMe TiMe

Not Highly Educated

I believe that the speaker in the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is a person who isn't so educated. I picture them being from the south and speaking with a matching accent. He seems sort of nice but a little depressing and sad. He keeps using weird comparisons like a splintered staircase which confuses me somewhat. It's a metaphor for how his life hasn't been easy like other peoples. The reason I think he's uneducated is because he used the word ain't instead of hasn't.

Johnson

Everyone knows someone who is bigger than them. Bigger, stronger, more intimidating. In the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, that person is a man who goes by Johnson. He is built better then a skyscraper, and to top it off he gets a hulking M60 machine gun. These two combined demand fear from everyone and thing in that gets in their way or on their bad side. Johnson is a killing machine and no one ever wants to mess with him.

Most of the time, Johnson has a stern look on his face. He rarely shows emotion, the only time was when his Lieutenant died. If you would meet him he probably wouldn't look or smell to nice because during war you have to go weeks without a shower. His clothes would be tattered and worn, and he would look like he went to hell and back. His face would look like he saw a ghost, and he would stink to high heavens.