It is about contrasts and finding ones place in relation to the rest of the world.
To me it is about these things:
Curiosity
Determination
Satisfaction
Awareness
Imperfection
I could build a picture metaphor about how it means "sex" or "growing up" or "life" or any other replaceable concept too, but I don't see a point to it.
As we see it describing a dream, I would say it is a wish for good fortune and for "fate" being loyal to how one predicts it.
The event of this happening is anticipated as cherish-able.
The poem can be applied to anything one sees as "good" or assumes to be required to be seen as "good".
This picture is not broken in any way and has little reflexion. The only tension I can sense in it is, when the last line of each part turns to draw an introverted perspective, which could be seen as room left for critique, which is not picked up actively, though reinforced through being in the end.
Uhm, yea...
Hope your presentation went well, btw, lol.
I actually have a similar, but opposite interpretation to yours, Abubakr.
I would agree that the first stanza is about Hughes's dream about equality. The second is more distinctly about reality. But while you think its a good reality, it seems to me that he's outlining a bad reality in the second stanza, the reality of segregation and racism that he lived in.
He dances, but he must dance in the face of the sun, rather than at some spot. The quick day is done, rather than the white day, and he rests at pale evening, as opposed to the cool evening. The night is black like him in the second stanza, as opposed to dark. While the same actions occur in both stanzas, the second is infused with more race consciousness and the reality of a segregated world.
