The Different Outlooks We Each Have on Life The combination of word choice and insight an author uses cannot only trap readers into an ironic situation, but change who the actual speaker is. In the poem “A Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur the viewpoint changes from a little boy to a snowman. The author allows his work to be two poems in one by his use of perception, diction, imagery, and different points of view to transition from “one” poem to the next. The first stanza opens with the outlook and reactions of the small boy to his surroundings. The little boy does not see anything in a different light, but he sees things in his funneled vision. He does not understand how the snowman will survive a night “of gnashing and enormous moan”
