In Remembering Elizabeth Bishop, an oral biography assembled by Gary Fountain and Peter Brazeau, the literary critic David Kalstone recalls a conversation with Bishop in which he praised her poem “In the Waiting Room,” noting that the first occurrence of the word “inside” in the following sentence “allowed you to think of the aunt inside and something coming from inside Elizabeth herself” as well:

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伊丽莎白·毕晓普《鱼》中的多义性

在纪念伊丽莎白毕晓普（Gary Fountain 和 Peter Brazeau 汇编的口头传记）中，文学评论家大卫卡尔斯通回忆起与毕晓普的一次谈话，在谈话中他称赞了她的诗“在候诊室”，并指出“里面”这个词第一次出现在下面的句子中“让你想到里面的阿姨和伊丽莎白自己内心的东西”：