We War The Mask By Paul Laurence Dunbar

In the poem We Wear the Mask, by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dunbar explains that people around the world wear a mask to hide their true selves. Dunbar also talks about how people cover up their tears and sighs with the masks so that people think nothing is wrong with someone else. Dunbar shows that once someone wears a mask, they are a whole new person. The poem also expresses that people only let others see them when they were their mask, and they look perfect. “Nay, let them only see us, while we wear the mask.”
There are many examples in this poem as to why people wear a mask. “It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes." As a girl, makeup comes straight to my mind. In the world, these days, many women, and even some men wear makeup to look better,