Hello. I'll be very grateful if you help me to understand a line from a poem.

Question

And yet
I am my one sole self,
America seeking the stars.
(Langston Hughes "America")

I mean the second line. I translated it word for word but it is still very ambiguous to me. Will you please paraphrase it for me to get it?

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

You have to understand the entire poem in order to understand these last three lines.

http://www.twcnet.edu/lib/file/manager/faculty/cschutz/US_Btw_Wars/Langston-Hughes-poems.html

In this poem, Hughes, an African-American, has claimed identity with many other American ethnic groups. Yet in his final lines, he tells us that he after all just one person, an idealistic American.