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   Powered by LitCharts content and AI. Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Bean Eaters,” first published in her 1960 collection of the same name, follows the slow rhythm of an elderly couple’s daily life. The poem's careful attention to the look and feel of the couple's tiny apartment—both scruffy and homey, poor and warm—subtly examines themes ...

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   The Bean Eaters. By Gwendolyn Brooks. They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood, Tin flatware. Two who are Mostly Good. Two who have lived their day, But keep on putting on their clothes.

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   What is the poem 'The Bean Eaters' by Gwendolyn Brooks about?

   • ‘ The Bean Eaters’ by Gwendolyn Brooks is a short, thoughtful poem that sadly and simply describes the lives of an old, poor couple. The three stanzas of ‘The Bean Eaters’ take the reader into the lives of an older couple who are spending their last days alone together eating beans.

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   Who wrote the Bean Eaters?

   • The Bean Eaters, Brooks’s third collection of poetry, was published in 1960, after she had already won the Pulitzer Prize and a number of other awards. In her first two collections, Brooks explored everyday African American life through subjects like home, family, war, racism, and poverty, while melding colloquial speech with formal diction.

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   What are the most anthologized poems from the Bean Eaters?

   • One can sense the range of Brooks’s work in three of the most anthologized poems from The Bean Eaters: the title poem, "The Lovers of the Poor," and "We Real Cool." In "The Bean Eaters," Brooks narrates the simple dinners of two elderly people who take comfort in their memories, their "remembering, with twinkles and twinges."

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   What are the three stanzas of the Bean Eaters about?

   • The three stanzas of ‘The Bean Eaters’ take the reader into the lives of an older couple who are spending their last days alone together eating beans. The beans are only one way in which Brooks depicts their poverty in the text. They can’t afford much, making do with the broken plates and old furniture they have in their rented room.

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   The Bean Eaters. Born in 1917, Gwendolyn Brooks was a life-long resident of Chicago until her death in 2000. Even as a child, she aspired to be a writer and received the support of her parents. She published her first poem at age thirteen in the magazine American Childhood. Under the tutelage and encouragement of James Weldon Johnson and ...

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   The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks. Gwendolyn Brooks: A Street in Bronzeville (LOA eBook Classic) Library of America. CURATOR. A champion of America’s great writers and timeless works, Library of America guides readers in finding and exploring the exceptional writing that reflects the nation’s history and culture. Learn More.

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   Published in 1960, ‘ The Bean Eaters’ is one of Brooks’s best-known poems and the title poem of one of her most important collections. This poem is one of many in the collection that seeks to outline and explore the lives of the men and women living in Chicago’s south side. In ‘The Bean Eaters’ Brooks focuses on themes of social ...

8. theamericanscholar.org › the-bean-eaters-by“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks - The American Scholar

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   Oct 17, 2023 · Amanda Holmes reads Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Bean Eaters.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.