Shifting from second to third person point of view in "Little Green," Joni Mitchell uses naturalistic imagery, powerful repetition, and quiet personification to portray that she loves her child and "sometimes there'll be sorrow."
Joni Mitchell uses naturalistic imagery to show the world in away meant for a young child. Mitchell uses "color when the spring is born" to represent the birth of her child. What she means for that line to say in reality is "your birth was like the colors of spring, and most people will agree that spring is the best looking time of year because of all the colors. Also Joni says "like the nights when the Northern Lights perform" also to show that her child's birth was a great and beautiful thing to her. As you can now see Joni Mitchell was very creative with her naturalistic imagery.
The artist also uses powerful repetition to get it stuck in your head that this song has a deeper meaning than a regular listener would recognize. Throughout the song Mitchell rapidly repeats the words "Little green" to show the deeper meaning in those two words. The word little green is supposed to represent her child. The whole song is singing indirectly to her child, so she uses "little green" as her child. Throughout the song Mitchell uses her repetition to get across a deeper meaning.
Mitchell uses quiet personification to try to hint that the "little green" is a really a child. By Joni saying "Born with the moon in cancer" she is trying to say that a child was born during the spring time. She does hat because the song wouldn't be as interesting if she sand directly to her child. If she did the song directly to her child then she would use a lot more "you" and "i" which can completely ruin a song with the overuse of that couple words. That is how Joni uses personification throughout the song.
So as you can see Joni Mitchell's use of naturalistic imagery, powerful repetition and quiet personification to show that she loves her child and "sometimes there'll be sorrow."
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