I NEED DETAILS ANALYSIS OF THIS POEM ON YOUR OWN. I APPRECIATE FOR CRITICAL ANAL

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I NEED DETAILS ANALYSIS OF THIS POEM ON YOUR OWN. I APPRECIATE FOR CRITICAL ANALAYSING IF YOU CAN

We Wear theMask Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 1906 We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile And mouth with myriad subtleties, Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. We smile, but oh great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile, But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!

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In the poem; “We Wear the Mask” the poet; Paul Laurence Dunbar, presents readers with a speaker who is speaking in the first-person plural, as “we” and not simply “I” as he is trying to represent the society. In the opening stanza, it is indicated that the group that is represented by the speaker is paying a “debt” to “human guile” by wearing a “mask that grins and lies.” In the second stanza, the speaker tries to suggest that; the world should only be allowed to “see us, wearing the mask only and not without it. The views of the poem i.e. wearing the mask in life and not showing the real self-are something very real; and close to what happens in the practical world. Be it at work or in the family; people having good emotional quotient are the ones who wear a mask.

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