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The poem begins as the poetess, as a young girl sits in a dentist's office in Worcester, Massachusetts, waiting for her Aunt Consuelo, who is being treated. The young Elizabeth, in a waiting room as the title ,"In the Waiting room", suggests, reads quietly an issue of National Geographic magazine of 1918, She looks at the exotic photographs in National Geographic magazines--volcanoes, pith helmets, "babies with pointed heads," and "Black, naked women with necks…” The girl hears her aunt cry out in pain. Suddenly, she has a revelation about her identity. According to Lee Adelman, "Commentaries on "In the Waiting Room" tend to agree that the poem presents a young girl's moment of awakening to the separations and the bonds among human beings, to the forces that shape individual identity through the interrelated recognitions of community and isolation." Elizabeth Bishop looks back in this poem on her anxious and overwhelmed child self with still-fresh empathy, but with the assurance and control of the accomplished artist. In 1961, Bishop wrote "The Country Mouse," The final paragraphs constitute the main idea of the poem "In the Waiting room", in this paragraph she troubles over the social obligation of being human. As she wai