Thus, The African-American, who is humiliated and degraded in the racial community becomes a man who is losing contact with external world while the external world is nothing but a world that cannot possibly interact with the African-American's own world. But while Hughes’s poetry reflects his pride and acceptance of his black origins, McKay’s works reflect his rejection of his blackness. Furthermore, the two poets employed their poetry in order to provide a solution for the African-American’s problem of estrangement and identity crisis. McKay’s and Hughes’ depiction of the problem of the mulattoes as well as their estrangement in the American society stems from the background and the early life of the two poets. A close reading