Poem 2

We Wear the Mask by Paul Luarence Dunbar

This poem was interesting to me. I read it through about 7 times, and thought about it. I really think the meaning of this poem is how people hide their emotions, everyone goes around acting happy but a lot of people inside are sad or angry. Especially he illistrates this to me in the line, "With torn and bleeding hearts we smile," I think this is so true, many people don't express the way they truly feel, and in many ways conveys that people are fake. We walk around with fake people acting happy and as if life is wonderful, not all people are like this but a lot. Though, it is not common for people to go around sharing their feeling to random strangers, but still this happens everyday, almost everyone is hiding an emotion. Thus, "We wear the mask!"