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Richard Wilbur

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Nature is all Richard Wilbur knew growing up. For that reason, he wrote heavily about nature, however, he also wrote about his loved ones while incorporating nature into them. “The Writer,” by Richard Wilbur, is about the love he has for his daughter and how he does not want her to struggle because all of the hardships she had faced were already enough. He expresses this through symbolism, imagery, and metaphors in order to show how he wants to provide protection for his loved ones, while still loving them.
Throughout Wilbur’s writing, it is evident that he has an inclination towards nature, and this inclination could have sprouted from where he grew up in addition to the way in which he was raised. Richard Wilbur was born on March 1, 1921 …show more content…

In the poem “Transit,” he uses personification saying, “she is made so beautiful that she or time must fade” (Wilbur 3-4). Doing this allows the reader to feel what Wilbur is feeling, which is that she is so breathtakingly gorgeous that no matter how old she grows, no matter how much time passes by, her beauty and his love for her will never fade. The reason he does this is so that the readers can actually imagine that the person he loves is the prettiest and that time will deteriorate before she does. Within this poem, he uses another piece of imagery to show how perfect he thinks she is, “Nothing changes as her perfect feet/click down the walk” (Wilbur 9-10). This is an image of a woman gorgeously strutting down a walkway wearing heels that click down perfectly. In another poem “Six Years Later,” Wilbur also uses imagery to show how he viewed the lady that he had fallen in love with. The phrase “her lips, fluttering from my shoulder, sought/To join my own,” shows a partly cute and partly awkward way in which they fell in love (Wilbur 17-18). In a way, this poem describes how the seemingly vulnerable woman with fluttering lips evolved to the woman strutting down the walkway, which only help to visualize the grace that she has developed. He uses both of these visuals to paint the image that he has a never ending love for his

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