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Boy At The Window By Richard Wilbur

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“Ignorance isn’t always bliss…” Ignorance isn’t always bliss, you can’t understand what you don’t know. In the poem, “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur, Wilbur illustrates how difficult it is to understand others if we don’t know or understand their lifestyle. Wilbur uses personification to develop the theme of the poem, showing that if you don’t understand the lifestyle of a person, you can have unneeded sympathetic feelings for them. Wilbur personifies the snowman and makes him happy and content in which the boy doesn’t understand. Therefore, the boy feels sympathetic and compassionate for the snowman. Many times throughout the first stanza, Wilbur uses personification to develop the theme. Through the line, “A night of gnashing and
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