By Paul Laurence Dunbar 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,

In counting all our tears and sighs? We wear the mask. To thee from tortured souls arise. We wear the mask! This poem is in the public domain.

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We Wear the Mask is a resilient and entrancing tug-of-war with external perceptions of self. A rondeau is a French poetic form composed of 15 lines, each of which contains between eight …

‘We Wear the Mask’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a three-stanza poem that is separated into one set of five lines, one of four, and one of six. The poem is structured in the form of a rondeau.

" We Wear the Mask " is an 1895 poem in the rondeau form by Paul Laurence Dunbar. It is one of his most famous works and has been cited by several scholars as his best poem. The poem …

The above poem appeared in Dunbar's first professionally published volume, Lyrics of Lowly Life, in 1896 by Dodd, Mead, and Company. It also appeared in the volume Majors and Minors from …

“We Wear the Mask” was published in 1896. Dunbar wrote about what it was like to be African American during the late 1800s and the pain experienced by the black community. In this poem, …

In this first line, the speaker introduces the reader to the extended and multidimensional metaphor of "the mask.” Most obviously, "the mask” represents the person the Black collective must …

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