• Connotations, themes, attitudes, and other meanings of "Boy at the Window" by Richard Wilbur

     

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Published: 14.12.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Connotations, themes, attitudes, and other meanings of "Boy at the Window" by Ri', 1.
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"Boy at the Window"
Richard Wilbur
Title: Boy - young, playful, innocent
At the window - bored, daydreaming, attracted to something
Paraphrase:
Stanza 1 - The boy weeps because a snowman stands alone outside and is about to suffer through a harsh night.
Stanza 2 - The snowman does not want to go inside and melt, but he feels thankful for the boy's worry of him.
Connotation
Snowman - cold and hardened person-literally and emotionally
All alone - he is independent, yet lonely
More than he can bear - the man is suffering outside
Night of gnashings and enormous moan - sufferings for the man…

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