Countee Cullen's Any Human To Another

The theme of Countee Cullen’s “Any Human to Another” is that sorrow affects all of us and we need to share our pain with each other. In the first stanza, Cullen implies that sorrow is often what lies at the bottom of the heart. Cullen grasps that he is not alone in this feeling of suffering deep down. In the second stanza, Cullen offers comfort to others like him. He uses imagery in the lines “Your grief and mine. Must intertwine. Like the sea and river.” Cullen is saying that one person’s suffering cannot be severed from another person’s suffering. In the second stanza, Cullen is also saying that grief can unite one human to another in an endless shared experience.
In the third stanza, Cullen tells that he believes that mankind ought to