Perspective How people view situations and things in the world is the main cause of conflict among humans. In “Boy at the Window”, Richard Wilbur makes use of point of view, along with other literary devices, such as personification, irony, and diction to assist in deciphering the two points of view. Someone once wrote, “We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” This statement is making reference to how everyone sees things from their own point of view or perspective and are incapable of seeing something any other way. In the first stanza the boy is looking out the window, weeping for the snowman who is going to have to endure the harsh winter conditions. The boy sees outside as a horrible place because from his perspective
