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We wear the mask (figurative language and imagery (parallelism: we…
We wear the mask
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summary
the speaker states that we wear the masks in order to hide our true feelings, he then emphasizes the amount of sorrow the masks hide. At the end, the reader realizes that all the politeness of people is just their masks, and these masks aren't useful
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historical background
the poet's struggle to show that black people weren't in peace with their social status as a segregated minority
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mood and tone
depressing, dull, discouraging, helpless, pessimistic
theme
"we all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin"
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