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Marking Time Versus Enduring In Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eater's"
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....nn 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. Kent, says the old couple who eat beans "have had their day and exit now as time-markers"(141), However, another reader, D. H. Melhem, perceives not so much time marking as ".... Part 2 of Paper
....eir 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."
A pessimistic reading of this poem seems justified. The critic Harry B. Shaw reads the lines just quoted as perhaps desparing: "they are putting things awau as if winding down an operation and readying for withdrawl form activity" (80). However, Shaw observes, the word but also indicates the couple's d.... |
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