We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar - Poem Summary, Analysis, Review, Interpretation

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Welcome to the CodeX Cantina where our mission is to get more people talking about books! Was there a theme or meaning you wanted us to talk about further? Let us know in the comments below! The Magnum Opus from Paul Laurence Dunbar. There are a lot of angles in which to approach "We Wear the Mask". We're taking an approach dealing with performance, mask, and expectations. I hope you enjoy and please share your thoughts down below.
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@Starscreamlive 2 года назад

I like how Krypto mentioned at the beginning, "who is the 'we' in this poem?" The beauty of this poem is that it applies to many groups of people, and to an extent, all people. A timeless classic!

@TheCodeXCantina 2 года назад

Indeed! There’s a certain lens that literature will always play to us, art even

@mrledhead68 Год назад

Well said, Starscreamtive. Ageless writing that touches EVERY soul and how living is the toughest thing, 'we' must endure.

@nileoracle 11 месяцев назад

It is a masterpiece and the use of it by Maya Angelou and her recitation the poem is Master ship work indeed because she puts in the necessary emotion the person who wears the mask and has had to always wear the mask and her take off on a story of a woman who rides the bus everyday and Fair demonstration example and analogy

@misst1078 11 месяцев назад

This was such a good discussion on We wear the mask. I am so glad I have found this channel.

@nileoracle 11 месяцев назад

Well done both of you

@TheCodeXCantina 11 месяцев назад

🙏

@rorygardner4525 21 день назад

Poems can be challenging because of a lack of description in the text. The title "We Wear the Mask" sets the reader for a question. I'm not a historian and I won't give you a historical context. Thanks 👍

@nileoracle 11 месяцев назад

Mini-store nothing but the smile because that is what they have always expected and the only thing many would accept from a lowly people... anything else would have been suspicious and would have needed to be put in check as is still the case it is very timely this poem

@EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse 2 года назад

yes! Una really has a voice (and face) for radio 😝

@EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse 2 года назад

zing

@TheCodeXCantina 2 года назад

😂

@johannaquinones7473 2 года назад

Awesome discussion❤️

@TheCodeXCantina 2 года назад

😊

@TheNerdyNarrative 2 года назад

Zora talks about the different faces that the black race adopted and showed in one of her non-fiction essays that absolutely supports what you picked up from this poem as far as society in that regard. It was eye-opening and also extremely sobering and sad.

@TheCodeXCantina 2 года назад

Great collection of Zora’s!!

@nileoracle 11 месяцев назад

Supposed to grin and bear it

@nileoracle 11 месяцев назад

Correct it is still with us too many of the dominant Society have not come past this I refer you to the woman who wrote concerning the fragility of fragility Americans and why this is so read the poem again with that in mind

@tobiallen07 Год назад

❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥

@nileoracle 11 месяцев назад

Point on I would not use the word scorn however it speaks to a scornful condition the said oppressed

@nileoracle 11 месяцев назад

The tools and Technical devices of writing poetry is used rhyme rhythm Cadence also denotes the natural movement black Americans melanated suppressed people everywhere

@geraldmeehan8942 2 года назад

Was "black face" common in entertainment at the time? Could it be the way blacks were portrayed on stage is the same face that black people had to portray to the world in real life?

@TheCodeXCantina 2 года назад

I just read an essay about the sixteen ways to look at black face by Hanif Abdurraqib. It was very interesting on a literal and metaphorical level.