Autobiography 1952 yehuda amichai tourist place
Yehuda amichai poetry.
Autobiography 1952 yehuda amichai tourist place
'Tourists' by Yehuda Amichai
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Visits of condolence is all we get from them.
They squat at the Holocaust Memorial,
They put on grave faces at the Wailing Wall
And they laugh behind heavy curtains
In their hotels.
They have their pictures taken
Together with our famous dead
At Rachel's Tomb and Herzl's Tomb
And on Ammunition Hill.
They weep over our sweet boys
And lust after our tough girls
And hang up their underwear
To dry quickly
In cool, blue bathrooms.
Editor 1 Interpretation
Are you a tourist or a traveler?
Do you visit a place for its surface beauty or for the stories it tells? These are just some of the questions that arise when reading "Tourists" by Yehuda Amichai. A classic of modern Hebrew poetry, this poem is a meditation on the complexities of identity, memory and tourism.
Through its vivid imagery and haunting metaphors, Amichai