We Wear The Mask Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I think this is a great poem on many levels- the rhyme, the rhythm, the words used, the mounting tension, the emotion, the mask and how steeped with history it is- human beings have worn it since Adam and Eve all the way to our age and we do wear it for much the same reason. This poem is so worth pondering on a midnight dreary

This has always been my favorite poem. It's about hiding your unhappiness, pain and sorrow, and acting as if everything were normal, happy, wonderful. Pretending to be one way when your really the other. A facade. I think it's truly beautiful.

Sigh... Soul wearing a smiling mask to keep the world survive on dreams! Oh dear poet, we are only a bit over a century late, if you could watch how the whole world came to be a masked slave...

Yes. Why let the world see me broken and down, when I could just fake a smile?

"With torn and bleeding hearts we smile" and it need not be a mask.

FIVE: And these lines from his poem too: Why should the world be overwise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask. What a GENIUS! !

FOUR: I cite 4 lines from his poem: We smile, but, O 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;

THREE: This magnificent poem is worth reading more than once, so touching to read nd what he really meant?

To the family of the Great Poet (his close-family who still reside in the USA) Congratulations on being chosen as THE CLASSIC POEM OF THE DAY More than once, many many times!