Cross by Langston Hughes

This is a personal poem of Langston Hughes.Being of a mix between two races he is neither white nor black. He is not accepted by blacks because he is white, and so the same by the whites because he is black. In America during the 1920's the segregation of whites and blacks was very predominate.He is deprived of either race. Leaving him with the confusion of which race he can identify with. When he reaches his adulthood and maturity he  realizes that he can't blame his parents for who he is.No matter what he does that's still who he is going to be.
 Langton Hughes in his last stanza  he is saying that his father died wealth and his mother died poor and in the last two sentences he asks where he is going to die being neither black nor white. This shows that now its up to him how he is going to live his life and only he can choose his own path.This implies to our lives as well, no matter what the circumstances we have been born into, we should accept it. Just like Langston hughes put it, we can't help the situation we are born into but we can change the life we are living. It is up to us to make our life better. It is also up to to create our own identity and destiny.