Daybreak in Alabama
Daybreak in Alabama - meaning Summary
A Hopeful Imagined Dawn
The speaker imagines composing a piece called "Daybreak in Alabama" that translates dawn into music and rich sensory detail. Vivid scents, colors, bodies and hands appear as musical elements. The vision celebrates Black life while deliberately including white, brown and yellow hands, suggesting a natural, tactile unity and hopeful reconciliation at daybreak. The poem frames art as a means to envision social harmony and shared human dignity.
Read Complete AnalysesWhen I get to be a composer I'm gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist And falling out of heaven like soft dew. I'm gonna put some tall tall trees in it And the scent of pine needles And the smell of red clay after rain And long red necks And poppy colored faces And big brown arms And the field daisy eyes Of black and white black white black people 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 And touching each other natural as dew In that dawn of music when I Get to be a composer And write about daybreak In Alabama.
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