"Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur is about a boy looking out the window at a lonely snowman, and he feels bad for the snowman being alone in the cold wind. Also, the author describes the snowman as, "Having no wish to go inside and die. Still, he is moved to see the youngster cry. . ." and he makes it seem like the snowman also feels bad for the boy. This poem contains many poetic devices, such as personification throughout the whole poem. One example of this is when the author says the snowman, "melts enough to drop from one soft eye A trickle of the purest rain, a tear. . ." where he gives the snowman the quality of a real eye and shedding a tear, when snowmen do not have real eyes and cannot cry. Also, the author uses peronification again when he says, "Having no wish to go inside and die. . ." and snowmen are not living and do not have brains, and therefore cannot "wish" anything and cannot die. Other poetic devices in this poem include rhyme scheme, where the author uses ABBABCBC through each stanza, and imagery when the author creates the picture of a snowman facing the window of a house and a sad boy staring out the window back at the snowman. My feelings toward this poem are that I do not like it very much, but I thought that it was a good example of personification and imagery. Overall, I thought this poem was okay, and I would not mind giving Richard Wilbur another chance in reading more of his poetry.
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