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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. .... Middle of Term Paper
... They are "Mostly Good" (5) , words Brooks capitilizes at the end of a line, perhaps to stress the old people's adherence to traditional values as well as their lack of saintliness. They are unexceptionl, whatever message they have for readers.
The isolated routine of the couple's life is something Brooks draws attention to with a separate stanza:
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away. (5-8)
Brooks emphasizes how isolated the couple is by repeating "Two who." Then she emphasizes how routine their life is by reating"putting."
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