The Boy and the Snowman “Boy at the Window” is a sweet poem that explores the innocent anxieties of childhood. The author, Richard Wilbur, uses a different perspective in each of the two stanzas, creating some ironic surprises that cause the reader to reflect on the harsh reality of winter in a new way. By using the word "boy" rather than a specific name for him, Wilbur unquestionably proposes that the boy's experience is universal. In each stanza Wilbur expresses the different perspectives of the boy and the snowman, he also uses a structure of tone and pathos for his poem. In the first stanza, the reader is inside with the boy looking at the snowman who is "standing all alone." ,” (1) a comment that sets a lonely tone from the start. The boy is very troubled as he thinks about what this snowman has to endure out there in the cruel winter night: wind, darkness, "massive gnashing and moaning", (4) characteristics obviously exaggerated in the mind of the boy who himself fears the night . and the disturbing sounds it produces. Seeing the “pale-faced” (6) snowman in the distance with his “bitumen” (6) or tar-black eyes, the boy feels terrible, as if he himself sees the first human being, Adam, after having been expelled from Eden. Wilbur's use of this biblical reference extends the universality of the poem's theme and deepens the sense of loneliness in the tone and the boy. Perhaps Wilbur is suggesting that this boy's Sunday School lessons have filled him with confused and frightened notions of God's power and passion to punish. The second stanza takes the poem on a completely new path, as the reader now changes the snowman's perspective and points of view. the boy at the window from outside the house. Surprise... middle of the paper... the “p” suggests a scary stutter. In contrast, the snowman is “moved” (11) when he sees the boy, but he is also rooted in his “element” (12) water and “melts” a drop from his “tender eye” (13). The "m" sounds here continue to have a soothing feeling, and the kindness of his eyes is a stark contrast to the boy's previous idea of ​​black dots giving off a terrible look. Clearly at the end of the poem through knowledge of the structure of the poem. , the reader must feel more pathos for the boy, who in the stanza one was standing all alone at the window, than for the snowman. In stanza two the tear the snowman sheds for the boy is not of sorrow for himself, stuck in the cold when the boy has “warmth” (16) and “light” (16) and “love” (16) but a tear for all the children who, even in the midst of so much security, manage to glimpse the world and perceive the fear of the unknown.