conventional elements (like plot, characters, tone, point of view, imagery, setting etc.) of literature
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use three (3) conventional elements (like plot, characters, tone, point of view, imagery, setting etc.) of literature to help you develop a literary analysis of your own on Brooksâ?? â??The Bean Eaters.â? (the poem is below) Remember that a literary analysis is not a personal reaction to the poem. Instead, it is an argument made about it. Assert a main claim (thesis) about the poem, supported by quotations from the poem itself. Be sure to use quotation marks
Poem
Gwendolyn Brooks
The Bean Eaters
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 are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And rememberingâ?¦.
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
Is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.
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This job uses three (3) conventional elements (like plot, characters, tone, point of view, imagery, setting etc.) of literature to help you to develop a literary analysis.
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In Gwendolyn Brooks' poem, "The Bean Eaters," the "old yellow pair" doesn't seem to have much except beans. They are very old, and time is too short for putting on airs so "Dinner is a casual affair." Despite being near the end of their life, they maintain their routines. One of the routines they maintain is the ongoing construction of their life story, the remembering of different parts of their life ...
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