Is を being used at the end of the sentence to indicate emotion? 「あなた無しで生きてる私を」


**verse**

> もし今の私を見れたなら
>
> どう思うでしょう
>
> あなた無しで生きてる私 **を**

According to this
[post](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/1209/does-the-
particle-%E3%82%92-wo-have-a-special-use-when-at-the-end-of-a-sentence)
accepted answer,

> It's still the object marker. The sentence is just not finished and the verb
> is implied.

However, I don't think this is the case here. As far as I'm concerned, we can
leave out を without changing its meaning:

> あなた無しで生きてる私 **(A)**

I've done some research online, coming across the following:

> を (Human emotion) marks a noun or noun phrase that serves as the cause of
> some inward human emotion. It pairs with inwardly-pointed verbs of emotion
> such as よろこぶ [To be glad]、[悲]{かな}しむ [To be sad]、[懐]{なつ}かしむ [To miss / To
> yearn for], and [悩]{なや}む [To be worried].
>
> Recovered from [wildnihongo](https://wildnihongo.com/grammar/o-human-
> emotion/)

No example ending with solely を was provided, though. From this source, the
construction is given by **Noun / Noun Phrase + を** , which happens to be the
case with **(A)**.

The source also notes that this usage of を is rather literary:

> (1) を (Human emotion) is very literary and you are unlikely to hear it in
> spoken Japanese.

* * *

This what I've gathered so far from English sources.




The sentence has the [A **を** Bと思う
construction](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/55169/5010) ("to think of A
as B"), but the Bと part is replaced to どう, and どう思う is placed before the
object
([倒置法](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/search?q=%E5%80%92%E7%BD%AE%E6%B3%95)).
The implied subject of 思う is (seemingly deceased) あなた. 私 is modified by the
relative clause あなた無しで生きてる ("who is living without you").

In the normal word order, the sentence is:

> もし(あなたが)今の私を見れたなら、  
>  (あなたは)あなた無しで生きてる私をどう思うでしょう

Which can be translated to:

> If you could see me as I am now,  
>  What would you think of me living without you?




The sentence has the [A **を** Bと思う
construction](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/55169/5010) ("to think of A
as B"), but the Bと part is replaced to どう, and どう思う is placed before the
object
([倒置法](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/search?q=%E5%80%92%E7%BD%AE%E6%B3%95)).
The implied subject of 思う is (seemingly deceased) あなた. 私 is modified by the
relative clause あなた無しで生きてる ("who is living without you").

In the normal word order, the sentence is:

> もし(あなたが)今の私を見れたなら、  
>  (あなたは)あなた無しで生きてる私をどう思うでしょう

Which can be translated to:

> If you could see me as I am now,  
>  What would you think of me living without you?

