Life In Gwendolyn Brooks 'The Bean Eaters'

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“The Beans Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks express the routine life of the poor couple satisfy life. The poem is about an old couple who is sitting at the table and starts eating dinner. Suddenly they start to look around them and start thinking about their life. An analysis of the routine and their satisfy life will help us understand the poem.
The routine
“The Bean Eaters” express the idea that when we are older, we are restricted to follow a typical routine. For example “and remembering, remembering with twinkling and twinges “(Brooks 9-10). These lines demonstrate that when we are younger, we have more opportunities to live our life to its fullness with ups and downs. However, when we are older, we are used to have an ordinary life. “Twinkling

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