Analysis of "The Bean Eaters" by Gwendolyn Brooks Anonymous College

Gwendolyn Brooks's poem “The Bean Eaters" highlights the loneliness and poverty of an old couple, people who have been forgotten by pretty much everyone. They have been forgotten by their kids who have grown up and moved out; they have been forgotten by the society and the government who kind of ignore the economic inequalities that they suffer, causing them to eat beans every single day. Even as our world modernizes, there are still people living in extreme poverty. This people are often ignored by politics and shunned by their society at large, a message that is elicited through literary elements such as symbolism, metaphor and rhyme

The message that the writer is trying to convey is that this poem is about an old poor couple who have yellowed like an old paper or an old leaf (they eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair). In the second and the third line of the first stanza, the author is trying to show that this couple does not have fancy preparations or planning for dinner, even their plates are chipped and old (dinner is a casual affair. Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood).The author repeated the word plain twice in line 3 to emphasize on how poor they are. The old couple seems to be “casual” most probably because...