Question

What does the following line mean? “And I’m gonna put white hands and black hands and brown and yellow hands and red clay earth hands in it touching everybody with kind fingers”. In your response write at least 100 words.

Answer 1

Taking into consideration that Hughes wrote during the Harlem Renaissance (a racial-conflict and racial-pride-centered movement) to highlight the problems and importance of African-American people of the era, we can infer that, by daybreak, he is making a metaphor to compare the hopeful future he aims for with the break of the morning. He goes on to say that, when he becomes a composer, he will write songs that will touch everyone and will create unity to see the daybreak in Alabama.

What imagery is presented in Daybreak in Alabama?

Imagery: The poet uses pictorial imagery in “Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist” and olfactory imagery in “And the scent of pine needles”. Alliteration:

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