I don't really get rape out of this...the "strange man" seems to represent a sudden realization that the speaker has lost her way...maybe she had great hopes and lots of passion when she was young; now she is getting older and is isolated and lonely and realizes that somewhere along the way someone "turned the channels" on her dreams...maybe the man is a sense of dread that looms over her that she decides to ignore...he seems to be more metaphorical, at any rate...
I don't really get rape out of this...the "strange man" seems to represent a sudden realization that the speaker has lost her way...maybe she had great hopes and lots of passion when she was young; now she is getting older and is isolated and lonely and realizes that somewhere along the way someone "turned the channels" on her dreams...maybe the man is a sense of dread that looms over her that she decides to ignore...he seems to be more metaphorical, at any rate...