Alice walker's poetic styels

The time period she started writing was on the 1950's
1952: At the age of eight, Alice is accidentally blinded by one of her brothers while playing a game of "Cowboys and Indians."
1952-58: Alice is ostracized as an outcast because of her scar. To deal with her feelings of loneliness, Alice begins to read and write poetry.
1958: At the age of fourteen, while visiting her brother Bill in Boston, Alice is taken to a hospital to have the cataract in her eye removed. She becomes confident and her life is transformed.

Cited from "Living By Grace"

I think this time period influenced her poetry by giving her experience of what things in life did to her so she started writing and her life became confident. For example on 1958 At the age of fourteen, while visiting her brother Bill in Boston, Alice is taken to a hospital to have the cataract in her eye removed. She becomes confident and her life is transformed.
After reading her biography i think what happened in her life experienced her poetry because she used what had happened to her and maybe write a poem that connects with that.
The poets style's was easy to understand because she would maybe draw an image and helped you understand what image maybe came to her head while writing the poem... She also used many poetic devices such as Rhyme, Simile,metaphor...ect.