Question

in the poem, "it is raining on the house of anne frank" what is the speakers point of view of the tourists? I also need to site evidence.

Answer 1

Answer:

The speaker believes that the tourists only felt obligated to visit these historic places. They were not ready to truly appreciate and reflect on the true meaning of these sites.

Evidence:

Lines 7-11 of the poem

tourists who would rather be

somewhere else

but who wait here on stairs

so steep they must rise

to some occasion

Explanation:

Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who hid in a house with her family during the Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi's were millions of Jews were killed. Van Gogh was a famous artist known for his painting but who would later take his life at the young age of 37.

The tourists visited these two historic sites without having any deep emotional attachment to the plight of these people. As soon as they were done with Anne Frank's house, they were hurrying off to the Van Gogh museum where they would still not have deep attachments to.