The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26735   Message #323636
Posted By: M. Ted (inactive)
20-Oct-00 - 06:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
Subject: RE: Wind/Sky crying 'Mary'?
The wind crying some one's name, be it Mary or not, is a literary device, much used in Victorian age poetry, called "Pathetic Fallacy", in which some element in the real world echoes or reacts to the emotions of the subject. When a cold wind blows on lonely person walks down a deserted street, when rain falls at a funeral, when something good happens and the sun pops out, or when the wind cries out the name of someone who has gone, your "pathetic fallacy" dollars are hard at work--