Please can anyone help me understand how metaphor is being used in the poem, "Tableau".

http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/52568-Countee-Cullen-Tableau

The poem has 12 lines, right? 3 stanzas of 4 lines each.

Look at lines 3 and 4.
Look at lines 11 and 12.

Those lines should get you started.

What/who is/are being compared? To what? What is the contrast?

Study some of the links in here if you don't see the metaphors:
http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+identify+metaphor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_en___US379

Both are important and both are equal. If one is golden splendor of the day and one is sable pride of the night. Colors i think one dark and one bright.

Oh, my goodness! It's filled with them.

First, we need to make sure you're understanding the term. Tell me what you understand a metaphor to be.

I know that metaphor compares two unlike and at same time describes how they are alike in one way.

Am I right?

Oh, I just saw your message. :)

What do you think about those lines I gave you?

This is what I understand:

"What/who is/are being compared? To what? What is the contrast?"

Ans: Two boys- one black and one white. And their friendship is being compared.

Am I right?

"And their friendship is being compared." <~~ What does that mean?

Am not that sure but I think along with the boys friendship the merging or bonding between the white and black is taking place.