The Bean Eaters

The Bean Eaters

Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The Bean Eaters" is about an old couple and how their lives change. When they get older? they eventually live in a small room back of the main meal of beans. Old age can be a dark time? but remembering the good times will keep people going. This means that old poem can be boring.

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 have lived their day, But keep putting on their clothes and putting things away. ...