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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"
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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room"

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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJan 18, 2018
    ISBN9781535845854
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      A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "In the Waiting Room" - Gale

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      In the Waiting Room

      Elizabeth Bishop

      1971

      Introduction

      American poet Elizabeth Bishop's In the Waiting Room appeared in print for the first time in the New Yorker in 1971 and was later published in her posthumous 1980 collection The Complete Poems, 1927–1979. In the Waiting Room can also be found in Bishop's Poems, edited by Saskia Hamil ton and published in 2011. In the Waiting Room recollects an event that occurred during Bishop's childhood in Worcester, Massachusetts, the town to which she refers in the poem, and is a rare exception to her disinclination to write her personal life into her work. The poem describes in Bishop's careful, steady manner the moment in a dentist's waiting room when she experienced for the first time an awakened sense of self-identity and connection to the global human family through exotic photos in a National Geographic magazine.

      Author Biography

      Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on February 8, 1911, into a family destined for loss. When Bishop was only an infant, her father died; when Bishop was five years old, her mother, who was mentally ill, was sent to an asylum, and Bishop never saw her again. As an effectively orphaned only child, Bishop was taken to Nova Scotia to live with her mother's parents for a few years, until her paternal grandparents brought her back to Massachusetts to provide her with access to a better education and society. However, unhappy in a household with little familial love and plagued by severe asthma and eczema, Bishop was moved from her grandparents' home to live with other local relatives, who nursed her and entertained her with literature that sparked her interest in writing. It was during her childhood years in Massachusetts that Bishop experienced the enlightenment described in her poem In the Waiting Room, which was first published in the New Yorker on July 17, 1971.

      After earning her degree from Vassar College in 1934, Bishop traveled throughout the United States and the world, writing poetry that detailed natural sights and scenes. She lived in Brazil for a decade and a half with her lover, Lota de Macedo Soares, but in contrast to the lively backdrop of Bishop's life and the fiery affairs in which she engaged, her

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