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Marking Time Versus Enduring In Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eater's"
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Marking Time Versus Enduring in Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eaters"
Gwendolyn Brook's poem "The Beann Eater's runs only eleven lines. It is written in plain language about very plain people. Yet its meaning is ambigous. One critic, George E. Kent, says the old couple who eat beans "have had thei ....
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....r withdrawl form activity" (80). However, Shaw observes, the word but also indicates the couple's determination to go living, a refusal to give up and let things go" (80). This dual meaning is at the heart of Brook's poem: the old people live a meager existence, yes, but their will, their self-control, and their connection with another person--their essential humanity--are unharmed.
The truly positive nature of the poem is revealed in the last stanza. In Brook's word, the old couple remember.... |
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