Question

What advice would Niemöller give to the speaker in "I Sit and Look Out"? Would the speaker agree with Niemöller's perspective? Give evidence from the text to support your reasoning

Answer 1

he might advise the speaker to run away while he could and speak out. He had already seen all the suffering of it, so that for it to not repeat, he (speaker) might have been advised to do so.

They would totally agree, because both of them, they spoke about their sorrows ("I Sit and look out upon all the sorrows of the world")

. Both of them, were crying men. they were also taken away. ("First they came for...Martin Niemöller/...Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.)

Answer 2

I think he would have advised him to leave while can and speak out.  The fact that someone called his name meant that he was caught.  He speaker had already witnessed much sorrow and pain from war and other problems.  Eventually they came for the speaker and there was no one there for him. “Then they came for me—and no one left to speak for me.”