Influences In Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry

The life of Gwendolyn Brooks

Brooks was A poet in the 1940s where she influenced many races and religions because of her writing. In Brooks’s poetry she received many prestigious awards and, less formally, has been celebrated by other poets. This is showing that other poets look up to her because of how influential and wise she is. Not only was Brooks one of the best African American poets ever but she is in the conversation for the best for any race. This is showing something, because in Brooks’s time people looked at African Americans differently because of race and other stuff like being wealthy or poor but for Brooks every race looked at her as a influential great poet. The reasons for this is because of how Brooks fought for her race and showed many people that everyone is the same. For Brooks this is one of the many things that she has done that is influential. This is making Brooks a one of a kind poet because of no other poet can match what she has done.

and Allison Hersh talk about how Brooks was as a poet and as a person. They also showed the kind of effect Brooks has on writing and how clear to them it was that Brooks was a special poet. Alan R. and Allison Hersh show this in their lit crit when they say “In her poetry Brooks experiments with a wide range of narrative and poetic strategies, exploring the spectrum of American social, economic, and cultural problems”(Alan R. and Allison Hersh paragraph 1). This shows how Brooks was clever with her thinking and using words and meanings on how the world was at her time of living. In “The Bean Eaters” Brooks shows her strategies by writing about how there are two different kinds of people in the world the people who have used their time and the people who still have life to live. In the lit crit Alan R. and Allison Hersh show that Brooks has the ability to show what kind of people there are in the world and how they can be