In Tour, Carol Snow uses an insightful and peaceful tone with the usage of imagery and form to show the reader that a place is looked at differently from the outsider's perspective and the caretaker's perspective and that a place means so much more than what is plainly seen. He “placed the camellia blossoms there” but “we had no way of knowing” what happened. The tourist may never know how the blossoms got there and what work was put in for it to happen. The two separate stanzas show how there are two different perspectives. This poem shows the reader that an outsider looks at all of the beautiful scenery but the outsider does not know how everything came to be. The caretaker understands the site on a deeper level. The tourist may enjoy everything at that site but he will never understand it on the level that the caretaker does. Carol Snow uses this tone, form, and imagery to show that the perspective of the caretaker and the tourist are completely different.
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