American poet and short story writer Elizabeth Bishop lived between February 8, 1911 and October 6, 1979. She won numerous awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award and the The Waiting Room Neustadt International Literature Prize in 1976. Bishop was said to work obsessively on his poems and spend years perfecting them. Two of the many poems she wrote were "One Art" (a poem about a woman who says we can master the art of losing) and "The Waiting Room" (a speaker describing her experience as a young girl reading the National Geographic magazine, which took place in February 1918). Elizabeth implicitly used the two poems to demonstrate how people are connected through their vulnerability. Everyone feels emotions about certain images or certain situations in life. These emotions can make a person terrified of what they really feel. In “One Art” Elizabeth begins the poem, “The art of losing is not difficult to master.” (1.1,2.6, 4.12) the speaker of the poem wants us to believe that we can lose things without having an emotional connection to It. By practicing loss, he feels we can master it, but losing and having an emotional response to loss is something human. It's as if she's afraid to admit that the loss in her life has affected her. In “The Waiting Room,” Elizabeth, a young girl, whether the poet herself or a speaker she invented, was surprised by what she heard. “What took me/completely by surprise/was that it was my voice in my mouth.”(44-47), when Elizabeth hears her aunt screaming from the dentist's office, she felt it was her screaming, as if they lived the painful experience together. Even though her aunt wasn't there to look at the magazine with her, her response described how she felt inside because of the images she was in... middle of the paper... Bishop doesn't clearly show the common ways in which people connect. In his poems he demonstrates a unique concept of how people connect through vulnerability, how people fear the unknown and fear their true emotions. By sharing those fears and true emotions people connect on a deeper level. The idea that we open ourselves up to tell someone how we feel or what scared us is a gateway we open up to show our true self. Showing our true selves is an experience that will forever be ingrained in our memories, but be wise to whoever you choose to open up to. Works Cited Bishop, Elizabeth. “An Art”. Literature: a portable anthology. Eds. Gardener, Janet et al. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martins, 2013. 455. PrintBishop, Elizabeth. Literature "The Waiting Room": a portable anthology. Eds. Gardener, Janet et al. 3rd ed. Boston: Bedford/ St.Martins, 2013. 455. Print