The wind Cries Mary

David Grkinich p.4
The wind cries Mary
The wind cries Mary is a song written by Jimi Hendrix about a clearly painful breakup between two lovers; this subject is particularly emotional and has extra resonance to me because I absolutely loathe the thought of not being with my girlfriend. Through an informal tone, Hendrix conveys his sad story through vivid images, personification and tone, “ the broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterdays life” this statement emphasizes the sadness in the song by painting a picture of a lonely, sad man sweeping up his life like a broken window and using a distraught tone. Personification like “Happiness staggering down the street” conjures an image not of happiness merely walking down the street but staggering, and tripping over itself as it leaves a man standing alone on his door step, though carefully selected diction like this Hendrix leaves an emotional resonance particularly to myself and perfectly describes the situation of a man losing his lover.
Hendrix ends each stanza with “and the wind … Mary” alternating different verbs in place of … for different effects, like using screams to show how much he misses his love or whispers to show how broken he is. This repetition ends each stanza which creates an especially lasting effect because it’s the last thing we hear (and he pauses for dramatic effect in the song for this reason) as we go into the next stanza. Hendrix’s sentences are short and choppy which creates the image of a broken man to sad or possibly crying, incapable of using correct speech. “After all the jacks are in their boxes and the clowns have all gone to bed” is a particularly vivid image that is emotionally evocative, meaning all the fun is over and the end of the day is upon him. Only using a single punctuation of any form throughout his song, a question mark which is used after he asks “will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past?”, Hendrix asks if the girl will even remember him, she whom he loved so much and held so dear will even remember his name; the question mark is used for emphasis.

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