本杰明首先是一个黑人,他作为一个黑人为黑人而写诗。只能说明,他没有一味向纯粹的艺术趋近,他走向了“诗载道”。然而他是一个纯粹的人,在当代,在众多的黑人作家之后,他继续着一颗自由和平等的心,在诗歌里发出长长的诘问,提出种族和平等的当代问题。他厌恶“帝国”二字,所以拒绝领受英帝国勋章。因为他本没有把诗歌献给大英帝国。——牛慧祥 Benjamin was first of all a black man who wrote poetry as a black man. Can only show that he did not blindly toward the pure art approach, he moved to “poetry”. However, he is a pure human being. In the present age, after numerous black writers, he continued with a free and equal heart, long-running questions in his poetry and raised contemporary issues of race and equality. He disliked “Empire ” word, so refused to accept the British Empire Medal. Because he did not dedicate poetry to the British Empire. - Niu Huixiang