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The author of “Boy at the Window,” Richard Wilbur, conveys ironies in each points of views in his poem. There are two different points of views, the boys and then the snowman’s. Wilbur communicates the points of views through ironies. One of the ironies Wilbur has communicated in his poem is in line five through line eight, in stanza two. “He melts enough to drop from one soft eye/ A trickle of the purest rain, a tear/ For the child…” It’s ironic that the snowman wept for the little boy. Only because you wouldn’t think that a snowman would cry at all. For anything or anyone. Another ironic statement that was found in the first line in the first stanza. “ Seeing the snowman standing all alone.” It Presents irony because snowmen do not stand,

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