Personification Throughout history authors and poets have used literary devices like personification to funnel their reader into the outlook of their choosing. Authors such as: Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer have developed their themes using personification for all of their literary works of art. Richard Wilbur follows in their footsteps in the poem, “Boy at the Window.” He uses personification to mold his theme of point of view changing the outlook of a situation. To start off, the speaker shows us two point of views to illustrate the difference of a situation from different perspectives. A young boy inside a warm house is empathetic toward a “Snowman standing all alone / In dusk and cold…,” wanting him to join him and evade the, “night
