Doll Vase
can someone please explain this poem ….?
The Bean eaters By: Gwendolyn Brooks They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair. Dinner is a casual affair. normal chipware in a plain and creaking wood, tin covered. Two who are mostly good. Two who have lived their day, but be put on clothing and store things. And remember. . . Recalling, with blinks and shootings, which they lean over the beans in the back room rental is full of bills and receipts and dolls and cloths, snuff crumbs, vases and fringes.
Check out the features of the poem – the rhyme scheme, capitalization strange (why "generally good"?) and the failure of the rhyme in some places (clothing / fabrics). Brooks has left everything you need to understand the poem. Now it's just a matter of careful reading.
