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The poem is written from a "we" point of view, which represents the "black folk collective", according to Braxton. [5] Braxton considers "We Wear the Mask" to be a protest poem which showed "strong racial pride". [6] Across the three stanzas, the world is unaware of the struggle of black people.
The poem and "We Wear The Mask" are two of Dunbar's most widely anthologized poems, [11] and "Sympathy" has been cited as one of his more popular works. [10] Although Dunbar was only twenty seven when he wrote the poem, he died six years later.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child.
West Side kids star in a rap music video that promotes wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic [1] [2] [3] qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.
Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...
In some states, it is a crime to wear a mask while committing a crime, according to an analysis of anti-mask statutes by the International Center for Not-For-Profit Law.
“Disruptive protesters wear masks for the same reasons the members of the Ku Klux Klan wore them in the past — to avoid being caught and punished and to frighten and intimidate the public.