A boy and a Snowman In the poem “Boy at the window”, the author, Richard Wilbur uses imagery to show what his purpose in this poem is. The poem is about a little boy, who doesn't understand the feelings of an Snowman and in this way R. Wilbur wants to expose that nobody shouldn't feel bad or sad about something that we can't understand. When you read Richard Wilbur’s poem you'll have two different pictures in your head. At first you'll see the snowman as lonely and in the second one is the snowman who sees a little child who is sad about something he can't understand. The little boy creates a depressing image of the snowman in your head because he thinks the snowman is lonely and sad. The first picture shows how the boy sees the snowman “standing