Boy At The Window Poem

There are different entities in how poems can be written for example it can draw out emotions, creates images, compressed ideas, rhythm, stimulate thoughts, and life experience. With poetry there are unique ways in writing them such as ballad, limerick, sonnet, ode, elegy, dramatic monologue, and haiku. Poetry has emotions and is well written in the “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur. The three elements that are used in the “Boy at the Window” are it draws out emotions, forms, rhyme, and connotative device.

After reading and listening through the first paragraph the boy is lonely inside the house which is using the connotative device throughout. Then the boy shows his emotions as he weeps for the snowman by being outside. The snowman would melt by the rain, wind, fire, or the heat was really touching on how the boy felt. The real touching point is the child fears for the snowman and is sad for the snowman. While the snowman pities the child for knowing fear when he is surrounded by, “such warmth, such light, such love, and so much fear” (Clugston). Wilbur a poet wrote this poem about what he experienced when he was witnessing his son wondering why the snowman could not come inside and join the family. After all, “the poet said was about an actual boy looking out of an actual window at an actual snowman, so how could it possibly be about man in an over-industrialized world, a boy refusing to grow up, or a comparison of civilized man and primitive man, as some people claim” (Elisa, Reza, and Kim)

I believe listening and reading a poem can help understand a reader on what the author is talking about. For the “Boy at the Window,” hearing the background was beneficial for me to understand the poem. Wilbur’s rhythm had two stanza ...

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...on). Adam was the first human God created in the garden of Eden which is was described as beautiful. The boy is at the window experience what Adam was doing when he was in the garden of Eden, which would be a beautiful place. The boy is inside his home away from the wintery weather and enjoying the nice warmth and light. While the snowman is giving the boy a stare as if the boy banished the snowman like God did with Adam.

The poems main focus is on the boy and the snowman. The content, structure, and attributes of the poem uses are with deeply felt emotions, values, reflective, restrained, and orderly expressions. The elements did not affect my opinions for the poem, I think after reading the chapter; I agree that Wilbur is more of an emotional writer. It was entertaining reading the “Boy at the Window,” and learning about the different ways of analyzing the poem.