But not all the black women's relationship with black men is affected by intraracial, racial and other influences. A careful formalistic approach to all of Brooks's poetry on women, especially the poems dealing with man-woman relationship, reveals two predominant influences in their life, which very often determine their love or marital relationship with black men: One is intraracial discrimination and the other is racial oppression.
Abstract: The predominant concerns of the African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks are race, sex, and aesthetics of art.
