[اطلق سراب]

Cross



My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder were I'm going to die,
Being neither white nor black

Cross
By Langston Hughes

The meaning of the word:
Cross: this word has multiple meaning.
1) Moving from one side to another.
2) Being angry.
3) Meeting of two lines- two different things.
4) This word connotes much pain to others.
5) The cross that crucified on.
6) A religion simple.
Paraphrasing:
My old man's a white old man
The poet is talking about his father that he is white and he is old.
And my old mother's black.
The poet says that his mother is old and black.
If ever I cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
The poet says if ever he becomes angry and upset and wanted to curse the whites, the cures will turn back to him.
If ever I cursed my black old mother
And wished she were in hell,
I'm sorry for that evil wish
And now I wish her well.
The poet says that he is very sorry if he had ever cursed this black side in his family, which is his mother, and he is sorry if he had ever wished she were in hill and now he is wishing her to be will.
My old man died in a fine big house.
My ma died in a shack.
I wonder where I'm gonna die,
Being neither white nor black?
The poet says that his father dead in a big good house because he is white and his mother dead in a not very good shack because she is black. Now he is wonder where he is going to die because he does not know if he is black or white.
The speaker:
The speaker is the poet himself.
Purpose:
The purpose of this poem is to show how difficult is to live in tow societies without belonging to any one of them. Also to show a person who has no belonging to society.
Theme:
The theme is explaining how upsetting and difficult to belong to no specific race or society. It is more painful and difficult to neither black nor white than to be black and belong to the black society which was suffering from racism