We do not see things we are; we see things as we are. In Richard Wilbur’s poem, “Boy at the Window,” this take on point-of-view is an essential literary device. The application of perspective change develops the work in its completion. Therefore, in a sense making this writing “two poems in one” by the use point-of-view. To begin, a boy narrates the poem. He perches at the window”…seeing the snowman standing all alone…” in the midst of a winter storm. “The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare/A night of gnashing and enormous moan.” Boy resents the cold night, as it hinders his play. The biblical allusion referring to the snowman returning a “God-forsaken stare/ As outcast Adam gave to paradise.”, gives the reader insight into the
