The Wind Cries For Me

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Losing a loved one creates feelings of loneliness and hopelessness for all people. Jimi Hendrix’s use of personification, diction, and emphasis in his song “The Wind Cries Mary” describe the longing feelings his protagonist experiences at the loss of a beloved woman named Mary. He describes his happiness as “staggering” (line 3) to give the impression, through personification, that his own feelings are hurt. The past is gone and his future will never be the same. “The traffic lights, they turn blue tomorrow,” (line 11). He fears a sad future, with no purpose, and so he uses the term “blue” traffic lights to express his pain and worry that the future will never be like the past but that, though things will be different, it will be the same life just like how a simple color change on a traffic light wouldn’t be the end of the world, it’d just take time to get used to. In each stanza of the song the Hendrix uses more personification, this time of the wind, to show his own feelings at the time: “screaming”, “crying”, and “whispering”. Hendrix is referring to his sobs and whispers to the empty room around him as he mourns the loss of Mary, and that the wind carries them—therefore “whispering” and “crying” with him. As the song is sung Hendrix emphasizes phrases like “queen is weeping” (line 8) and “has no wife” (line 9) to point out the separateness of the king and queen. He pauses before saying “is dead” to focus on the fact that his life can not ever go back to the way it was before. In the last stanza he proclaims “Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past?” hopefully, but then slows down his pace and lowers his pitch for the reply, pausing at “no” and “last” to emphasize the finality of the wind.