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Analysis Of The Boy At The Window By Richard Wilbur

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The “Boy at the Window” written by Richard Wilbur is a tender poem that examines the anxieties of early life but is created by the author into two poems in one. Richard Wilbur utilizes two different points of view of the two main characters in his poem. This technique makes the reader think of the terrible truth of winter in a whole new light. Wilbur uses the word “boy” to not depict an individual person but a universal one of the gender in general.

Starting in stanza 1 the boy is looking out of the window at the snowman who is “standing all alone,” a remark that creates a lonely mood of the poem from the beginning. The boy is extremely upset throughout as he thinks of how this snowman much go against this brutal winter evening out in the
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