Boy At The Window By Richard Wilbur

Boy at the Window
ENG 122: Introduction to Literature

1 Boy at the Window by Richard Wilbur is about a little boy who has pitty for a snowman and the snowman also feel pitty for the little boy. The both of them feel sorry for each other. The little boy starts to cry and the snowman is moved but, he has no wish to go inside and die. The snowman in turn drops one tear for the little boy. The little boy and the snowman misunderstood the different perception of each other’s life. How many times do we all at one point or another misunderstood the different perceptions of others lives? In the poem “Boy at the Window” the little boy expresses the loss of innocence by being afraid of the snowman standing alone outside in the cold snow. “Seeing