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Poem Analysis: Assaulted By The Rain

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The last few stanzas in the poem emphasizes Sankichi’s dissatisfaction towards the dealing with the aftermath: “Right beside the street people come and go, well-meaning but utterly indifferent, assaulted by the sun, attacked by the rain, covered over by dust, growing fainter year by year: this shadow” (31-34). The image Sankichi has put forward here is a picture of the shadow undergoing all kinds of hardships –“Assaulted by the sun, attacked by the rain”. This image connects the readers and Sankichi and gives them furthermore understandings of Sankichi’s frustration regarding to the handling of the aftermath. Sankichi continues his complaint by saying, “Indifferent, the authorities say: “If we don’t protect it with glass or something, it will
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