The Bean Eaters

We will discuss this poem during week two.  Please read it and think about the specific examples the author provides and the specific examples supplied by your own imagination.  Take a moment to think about the mental picture the poem creates.  Jot down some notes about the appearance of the room, the people, and anything else that appears in your mind.

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 And putting things away. And remembering . . . Remembering, with twinklings and twinges, As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.