Analysis of Elizabeth Bishop’s “In the Waiting Room”
As one reads the poem “In the Waiting Room”, by Elizabeth Bishop, it is inevitable to grasp the journey of self-discovery that the narrative expresses. The subject of the poem is the sudden awareness of the world around us. The narrator, who is a girl of age six; is about to turn seven and she is learning to cope with her own self. She is sitting in a waiting room, at the dentist’s office. She can notice everyone around her, and is able to connect to the world by reading and looking at pictures of the National Geographic Magazine. After the subject is derived, one can explore a deeper insight into the poem by answering the following questions: Why are the images from the National G
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