Learning English literature including American literature for second language learners needs to reconstruct some elements in teaching process. The reconstruction is necessary, because the students at least will be up against any factors, culture, language and figurative language. Such factors must be comprehended firstly before the students learn the next phase of literature. The aim of this study is assimilating all of students' potency like experiences, prior knowledge or schemata engaging with the students' environment. The subject analysis is Black American poems from Black Art Movement era compared to Indonesian contemporary poems from D. Zawawi Imron. This american black arts movement is interesting because it tries to reidentify and to gain the identity as the African - American people. All arts should be the product of a creative need and desire in terms of Black people. Thus, this Black arts movement inspires the reinforcement of Africa - American literature such as the creation of poems, drama, and novel. Consequently, it is not simple matter for L2 students in Indonesia, thus D. Zawawi Imron's poems use as the comparative data because these poems also figure out the similar problem such identity, race, and moral values. The constructivism is chosen as the basic theory in approaching the learning literature process because by using this theory it will enable to assimilate and unify all learning factors like prior knowledge or schemata, experiences, and environment as the underlying factor to reach the learning literature objectives.