Perspective on situations sets the tone for our outlook on life. How we see circumstances is what either makes or breaks our attitude. In “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilber point of view combines “two poems” to display how “people” can have different perspectives on the same situation. In the first stanza readers notice through Wilber’s diction that the little boy looking through the window is bitter toward the cold of night. His negative attitude is clearly expressed in line two when stated that “the dusk and cold is more than he can bear”. This stanza is concluded giving a biblical allusion of a “God-forsaken stare” that gives off a powerful, frightening tone. However, Richard Wilber shows a contrasting point of view through a snowman’s
