Imagine what it will be like if you are to witness a bomb incident and survive it. How much will it affect your life? How will your worldview change? Toge Sankichi is one of the few people who survived the Bombing Of Hiroshima. He wrote a collection of poems along with two other survivors of the gruesome event and, later named their collection –“Hiroshima: Three Witnesses”. One of the famous poems Toge Sankichi had written is called “The Shadow”, which illustrates the disturbance happened in Japan after the bombing. In “The Shadow” Toge Sankichi also uses imagery to portray the terrible experience he had been through and his dissatisfaction towards the aftermath of the tragedy. The poem begins with the image of the “New Hiroshima”: “Cheap
