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Analyze how the "wet and depressing" evening serves as a pathetic fallacy for the speaker's regret. The Entangled City:

The second stanza expands the image:

While "Regret" focuses on the personal, it is deeply tied to Parthasarathy's broader poetic concerns regarding identity. Like many of his works in Rough Passage , the poem reflects a "cultural dilemma". The poet often regrets his "whoring after English gods"—his immersion in Western culture and the English language at the expense of his Tamil roots. In "Regret," this manifests as a feeling of being "exiled" from his true self.

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