Deconstruction was founded by Jacques Derrida in the late 1960s. It provides you to think more critically for a literary work but to achieve this you need to know some important steps. This article will attempt to do a deconstructive reading of Langston Hughes' poem "Cross" using these important passages respectively. According to Tyson, deconstructive reading aims to show the undecidability and complexity of a text's ideology. These two objectives mean being suggestive, with a plural meaning, disunity, aporia, conflicts, binary oppositions. The first way to deconstruct a text is to read very carefully and analyze all the interpretations. It should try to reveal the conflicts of these interpretations. That is to say, binary oppositions should be defined. The third step is to find the messages and find new interpretations after conflicts. The last is to deconstruct these ideologies, binary oppositions, text to show the undecidability and disunity of the text (259). With this information we obtain the deconstruction of the poem “Cross”. The poem: “Cross...