How does the poet use rain to develop the idea of suffering in the poem? In the poem It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank A. By showing how the rain falls on all parts of Amsterdam, the author is leading the reader to see the rain as universal.

B. Suffering implies that someone had to deal with pain, and the tourists are inconvenienced by the weather.

C. Rain is the main way that the tourists are inconvenienced in the poem. Anne Frank was also inconvenienced, since she was put to death during the Holocaust. These two ideas are connected.

D. Rain is one of the main annoyances tourists have to put up with. The juxtaposition of the tourist's desire to be "somewhere else" is nothing in comparison to the horrors retold by their steps throughout the house.