A Reading of Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters

Gwendolyn Brooks poem “The Bean Eaters” is about an old couple and how their lives changes. As they get older, they end up living in a small back room eating mostly beans. Old age can be a dark time but remembering the good times will keep people going. This poem implies that old age can be boring. For example, “Two who are mostly good/ Two who have lived their day, but keep on putting on their clothes and putting things away” (lines 5-8). This shows that they have nothing else to live for but each other, because they have already lived through the best times of their lives and they live the same day by day with each other. It also shows that they are old by saying, “This old yellow pair” (line 1). This poem shows that remembering the old times will keeps people going. In my opinion, this poem is a despairing picture of old age

Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who wrote “The Bean Eaters” in 1960. Although, this poem runs only eleven lines and it’s written in plain language about very plain people. She’s also the first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America’s most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. She has

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