Interview with Gwendolyn Brooks
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A 1986 interview with Gwendolyn Brooks while she served as a poetry consultant for the Library of Congress.
The Bean Eaters
by Gwendolyn Brooks
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The speaker takes on an airy, dispassionate third-person omniscent perspective. The Free verse with irregular meter and rhyme scheme.
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The imagery reinforces imagery filled with nostalgia warmth. "The Bean Eaters" is a poem describing the simple, frugal ritual of eating beans as enacted by an aging Black couple in the 1960s. The first stanza establishes the ritual—"They eat beans...
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