The difference of mood when a poem is put into a song

Author's note:  This piece is about two poems "Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Field Below" and the difference on how you feel when it is put into a song.

The author's purpose of "Big Yellow Taxi" by Joni Mitchell was about how you don’t know what you've got till it's gone.  Also the poem was about nature and it is being taken away for buildings and roads.  The tone of this poem was depressed and sad.  The mood was sad and sympathetic.  The author's purpose of "The Field Below" by Regina Spektor was about you don’t know what you've got till it's gone as well.  Also this poem was about nature as well.  I feel that these poem were very similar in these areas.  The tone of "The Field Below" was sad.  The mood was homesick and again sympathetic.  These poems were very similar.

I feel that when "Big Yellow Taxi" was sung it was very up beat giving the listener confused if they really listened to the lyrics.  Once you listened to the song the tone was not sad anymore so the mood was not sympathetic.  So the music really changed once it was sung.  In "The Field Below" the music really fit the lyrics.  How it was sung was slow and nice.  You really did feel sympathetic.  I feel that "The Field Below" was sung a lot better with following the lyrics.