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    The “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur is a poignant poem. Richard Wilbur “said that he wrote the “Boy at the Window” after seeing how distressed his five-year-old son was about a snowman they had built” was stuck out in a storm (Clugston‚ 2010). Poignant can be described as an awareness of both beauty and loss through powerful feelings or pain. Poetry has this beautiful gift of being able to evoke strong feelings in the reader. In the “Boy at the Window” the poet captures the innocent nature

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    The Boy at the Window is a poignant poem written by Richard Wilber. According to a statement made by Wilber‚ it was inspired by his five year old son being concerned about the possible danger his newly completed snowman was in due to a pending storm. Poetry is often recognized for its ability to evoke strong feelings in the reader and the beautifully innocent nature of Boy at the Window exemplifies this magnificently with skillful use of personification and beautiful use of metaphors. The story

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    Boy at the Window” Response Charlotte Schroeder Ashford University 03/18/2013 ENG 125 Instructor Abby Forster Poetry is very emotional and speaks about real life experiences; poems have rhythm and feelings‚ delight and surprise. “There are three things‚ after all‚ a poem must reach the eye‚ the ear‚ and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is most important of all reach the heart of the reader.” (cited in Clugston‚ 2010‚ Frost) In reading Boy at the Window‚ by Richard

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    see things differently when we are young. We can get away with being naïve to the world. Reading “Boy at the Window” there is a sense of being young and not knowing about the world. It is difficult to understand how people think if you do not know about their lifestyle. This story explains how someone feels about another person. Reading poetry is something to truly experience. Authors write poems with strong feelings. “Saying that poetry is built into our life experience is another way of saying

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    Response to “Boy at the Window” In reading “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur‚ it gives us a unique look to a response to a child and a snowman. We are told that the poem was written “after seeing how distressed his five-year old son was about a snowman they had built” (Clugston‚ 2010). The poem is about a how a little boy becomes sad after building a snowman and seeing him outside alone. Wilbur uses different literary elements to draw strong feeling in this poem. We are shown two different

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    Reading response to a poem: Richard Wilbur Boy at the window D. Jones ENG125 July 1‚ 2012 For: Jennifer Miller Reading response to a poem: Richard Wilbur Boy at the window When one is considered naïve‚ it has been thought to determine one as “having or showing a lack of experience‚ judgment‚ or information; credulous” (www.dictionary.com). In Richard Wilburs’ poemBoy at the Window‚ Wilbur uses simple form language to paint the image of the boy staring out the window at the snowman. In

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    Reading Response to a Poem: Boy at the Window (1952) By: Richard Wilbur Patricia A. Murray ENG125 Introduction to Literature Ashford University Tara Whitehead – Instructor February 9th‚ 2013 Reading Response to a PoemBoy at the Window by Richard Wilbur In Richard Wilbur’s poem Boy at the Window‚ the narrator tells of a boy seeing a snowman left outside in the cold‚ with darkness approaching‚ and relates the boys’ feelings for the dangers of the night that the snowman must face. The

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    The boy at the window Eng 125 January 10‚ 2012 Poetry it is a very real thing as well as emotional. Many people use poetry to write love poems‚ or even about certain things like in the poem “The Boy at the window” (Richard Wilbur). In this poem it shows a lot of emotions as I will discuss in the paragraphs to follow. Poems also are funny or scary. Poems really can be about whatever you want them to be about. He states in his audio that his five year old son was upset that his father didn’t

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    Tatiana Soeder Honors English- 3rd hour Poetry Analysis In the poemBoy at the Window‚” Richard Wilbur uses imagery‚ tone‚ and theme to show what his purpose in this poem is. At the end of the poem‚ the author wants the reader to understand that we should not feel bad or sad about something that we don’t understand. Richard Wilbur’s use of imagery in the poem helps us to understand his purpose of this poem. The stanzas in the poem paint two completely pictures in your head when you read them.

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    Boy at the Window” “Boy at the Window” is a classic poem in which a small boy feels the pain of a loss. Behind the setting of a bright room‚ a warm fire‚ and a family’s love‚ you find yourself absorbing amazing imagery and allusions that will drastically change your understanding of this literary piece. In the poem ‚the author Richard Wilbur uses the literary device of imagery as not only a method to strengthen the readers understanding of the situation at hand‚ but also climbs to the level of

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