Where silted red sometimes the sun sets.
In the waiting room theme.
Within in the waiting room bishop explores themes associated with coming of age adulthood perceptions and fear these are seen through the main character s confrontation with her inevitable adulthood her desire to escape it and her fear of what it s going to mean to become like the adults around her.
Discussion of themes and motifs in elizabeth bishop s in the waiting room.
In the waiting room elizabeth bishop shift as said before this poem was written in free verse however the length of the lines seem to shorten.
By shortening the lines the poet.
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In the waiting room describes a child s sudden awareness frightening and even terrifying that she is both a separate person and one who belongs to the strange world of grown ups.
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Some lines are trimeter others dimeter with variations but the overall impression is that the form is prose chopped into punctuated lines.
Elizabeth seems quite proud of the fact that she can read this magazine for grown ups at such a young age.
The crux of in the waiting room is really the national geographic magazine itself.
From narrow provinces of fish and bread and tea home of the long tides where the bay leaves the sea twice a day and takes the herrings long rides where if the river enters or retreats in a wall of brown foam depends on if it meets the bay coming in the bay not at home.
Analysis of in the waiting room.
There is no regular set end rhyme scheme to the lines and no rhythmic pattern.