Monday 30 April 2012

Journal entry-10


Cross by Langston

I wonder why this poem is put with the title” cross”.
Could it be the expression of anger ?  or could it be because of  the poet position for being neither black nor white? 

When I read through the poem, I think both could be the reason why Langston  entitles his poem cross. His anger comes from the idea of how to position himself in the society when both black and White people could not accept people like him-mix black and white people.

This poem is really suitable to use in class since we live in Malaysia with multi-racial, multi-cultural and multi-beliefs.

The moral is to  not put someone in agony like the experience of Langston just because of their different in cultures, beliefs and races. We human should respect to each other for none of us like being marginalized.

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