Author's Note: This is a Poetry analysis piece I am doing on the poem Big Yellow Taxi.
In the poem "Big Yellow Taxi" a mother and a father are getting a divorce and need a taxi to split them up. The author used examples of figurative language to show the emotion and thought process going through the parents minds. He says, "Paved Paradise." This is an alliteration of the taxi driving away from his wife into paradise. The man isn't thinking at the time and believes that this will be paradise. So it says, "Late last night, I heard the screen door slam." The author is trying to paint a picture of what the wife was feeling when she woke up last night to see a big yellow taxi driving her husband away.
In the poem "Big Yellow Taxi" a mother and a father are getting a divorce and need a taxi to split them up. The author used examples of figurative language to show the emotion and thought process going through the parents minds. He says, "Paved Paradise." This is an alliteration of the taxi driving away from his wife into paradise. The man isn't thinking at the time and believes that this will be paradise. So it says, "Late last night, I heard the screen door slam." The author is trying to paint a picture of what the wife was feeling when she woke up last night to see a big yellow taxi driving her husband away.
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