Poem Analysis: We War The Mask By Tone

We Wear The Mask My reaction to the poem “ We Wear the Mask” is a feeling of truthfulness. It tells about what people see and what others hide. People that I have met don’t really act like themselves. Like when it says “We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries to thee from tortured souls arise” those are the people who have hid themselves from others. They are people we wouldn’t know that are at home cutting themselves are even attempt to do suicide that only the lord knows. They can talk like anybody with friends “and with myriad subtleties” because they hide behind the mask so we don’t know what is happening behind them. From what we see is what we do not know “but let the world dream otherwise” because it takes time to learn about what