THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
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“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Lawrence Dunbar focuses on ____
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A festival of masks that originated during the 1920’s
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How/why people hide their true feelings
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The pain that people wear on their face when they go through difficult times
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Dunbar’s own personal struggle with his identity
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In the first stanza, the speaker writes that he and his audience must wear a mask that hides their pain and suffering. The next stanza asserts that the world has no right to know one’s personal suffering, and the third stanza is about the suffering that is behind the mask.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar refers to people hiding their true feelings and emotions from everyone else behind a “mask.” In the poem he refers to the cheerful facial expression that people thinks is necessary so that others don’t see how they truly feel.
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