Boy At The Window By Richard Wilbur

“Boy at the Window” “Boy at the Window” is a classic poem in which a small boy feels the pain of a loss. Behind the setting of a bright room, a warm fire, and a family’s love, you find yourself absorbing amazing imagery and allusions that will drastically change your understanding of this literary piece. In the poem ,the author Richard Wilbur uses the literary device of imagery as not only a method to strengthen the readers understanding of the situation at hand, but also climbs to the level of placing hidden allusions which refer to great biblical stories in which sharpens the readers understanding and develops the stories plot and theme. One example in particular Wilbur wrote that the snowman “Returns a God-forsaken stare, such