The Bean Eaters Poem
Peyton Martin
Mrs. Rose
English ll
6 November 2017
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 …show more content…
This line means that the old couple is have a very good time at their dinner and enjoying it as it lasts. “Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware” (line 3-4). This means that they can’t afford to do anything like wealthy couples can, they take whatever they got left like “Plain Chipware” this means it’s a plain plate that is chipped that they only have to use in their dinner. The whole line means they can not afford new silverware or brand new clean plates. They just got to use whatever they have because they are poor.
In the second stanza “Two who are Mostly Good- Two who haved lived their day, but keep putting on their clothes And putting things away”. This means that they are getting old and they have nothing to do because there life is actually over like they are retired from life. Most old people go through a slow day as in putting on the same clothes every day or they go get coffee at the store and stay there for a while and hang out with their friends who do the same thing, they are doing this because there are old and getting out of
Mrs. Rose
English ll
6 November 2017
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 …show more content…
This line means that the old couple is have a very good time at their dinner and enjoying it as it lasts. “Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware” (line 3-4). This means that they can’t afford to do anything like wealthy couples can, they take whatever they got left like “Plain Chipware” this means it’s a plain plate that is chipped that they only have to use in their dinner. The whole line means they can not afford new silverware or brand new clean plates. They just got to use whatever they have because they are poor.
In the second stanza “Two who are Mostly Good- Two who haved lived their day, but keep putting on their clothes And putting things away”. This means that they are getting old and they have nothing to do because there life is actually over like they are retired from life. Most old people go through a slow day as in putting on the same clothes every day or they go get coffee at the store and stay there for a while and hang out with their friends who do the same thing, they are doing this because there are old and getting out of