Bean Eaters
To help bring out the message in a poem, the author will use many literary devises. Often the author will write about real life situations or maybe they will write about fantasies. A poem is a fascinating style of writing. It can tell a story or just get a message across. There are different kinds of poetry, and the level of understanding differs greatly depending on the poem and poet. In the case of Gwendolyn Brooks, her poems are very straight forward and easy to comprehend. Techniques such as imagery, diction, and style help in getting the message across on Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The Bean Eaters."The poem "The Bean Eaters" by Gwendolyn Brooks is a very straight forward poem in terms of its meaning. It starts off by describing an elderly couple as an "old yellow pair." The poem goes on by saying that the elderly couple eats dinner, which is beans on this particular day, as "a casual affair." In the poem, the couple doesn't seem to have very much and eat their dinner on plain chip ware on a plain creaking wood." The second stanza tells the reader that the couple is "Mostly Good" and says that they have lived their lives and their days are near. But instead of giving in, they live on by "putting their clothe
The diction in "The Bean Eaters" is very simple. By keeping the diction so simple, the poem becomes very easy to understand. The diction in the poem gives the reader a sort of sympathetic feeling for the elderly couple. The words used in Brooks' poem make it appear as though the couple has very little. The poem starts off by telling the reader the couple is at "a plain creaking wood" which is used as their dinner table. Also, instead of using fancy silver ware, the couple is using "plain chip ware" and "tin flatware". The author uses simple words and this could perhaps reflect that the couple had a simple life. Their memories consist of "beads and receipts." These are very simple object along with "dolls and cloths." Once again, since these things are very simple and plain, it could reflect how simple and plain their lives were. Also in the first stanza was the word "plain" twice in the third line and "casual" in the second. All this is, is really just a description of the lives the elderly couple lived. But despite all this simplicity the two lived through, they "kept putting on their clothes and putting their things away." The style of the poem also helps to get the message of the across. Besides the first word of every line being capitalized the only other two words that are capitalized are "Mostly Good." Also, the other unusual thing is that the lost two lines are indented. In my opinion, this is done to put emphasis on these are
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Approximate Word count = 974
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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