Lorna Alkana

3 responses to “Comic Interpretation of “In the Waiting Room” by Elizabeth Bishop [draft1]”

1. 

   linda

   August 2, 2011 at 5:21 pm

   Wonderful and powerful

2. 

   Alex

   August 3, 2011 at 2:21 am

   Wow!!! Damn cool!!!

   The artistic consistency makes it flow really well and I like the panel logic on the falling-out-of-the-chair page!

   And I like the scribbles in the first and last panel used to frame the whole thing!

   (Also I had Fugazi’s “Waiting Room” in my head as I read it, for obvious reasons)

3. 

   lornayespeace

   August 3, 2011 at 8:39 pm

   I wrote a paper a few years ago comparing Fugazi’s sung with Bishop’s poem. I argued that Fugazi’s song hails elements of the poem. For example, both texts invoke a sense of collective voice. In Bishop’s poem, the speaker joins the others of waiting room as she spirals into introspection, “I-we-were falling, falling”; and the layered vocals in Fugazi’s song create a feeling of unity, “Everybody moving, everybody moving, moving, moving, moving.” Not to mention each text’s use of repetition.

   Thanks for your feedback, Alex!