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-Politics
-Technology
-Economy
-Money
-Jobs
-Loyalty

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"We wear the mask was written during the Civil War time period. During this time period poets often focused on FREEDOM, PATRIOTISM, AND REALIZATION OF SLAVERY. The underlying message of this particular poem is people hide their true feelings by putting up a fake front. Particularly in this poem, Dunbar is taking from the SLAVE EXPERIENCE and the emotional affect it had and continue to have on African Americans during this time period. REPETITION and RHYME SCHEME are used throughout the poem to help create the tone of the poem.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dunbar/mask.htm

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This poem was written between the time periods of CONTEMPORARY and MODERNISM. During these time periods poets often focused on their FLOW OF THOUGHTS and CONSCIOUSNESS by CHALLENGING SOCIETY and IMAGISM. The underlying message of this poem is self reflection. In this poem, the mirror forces the woman to face her true self image and look into her true feelings. PERSONIFICATION is used in this poem by giving the mirror human characteristics to help get the theme across.
http://penandthepad.com/overall-meaning-poem-mirror-19098.html

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- Her relationship with her father (strict attitude and death) shaped her personality and poems
- She suffered from bad depression
- Her work is reputable for its violent and disturbing imagery, alliteration, and rhyme
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sylvia-plath

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-one of the first African American poets to get national attention
-drew on slave experiences for inspiration
-got a clerkship at Liberty of Congress in D.C.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/paul-laurence-dunbar

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by Sylvia Plath

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike,
I am not cruel, only truthful--
The eye of a little god, four-cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A women bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her bac, and then reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old women
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

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by Paul Laurence Dunbar

We wear the mask that grins and lies
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes--
This debt we pay to human guile;
with torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And Mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be otherwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

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2.)"My Noiseless Patient Spider Poem" Analysis

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2.)"My Noiseless Patient Spider Poem" Analysis

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The time period of this poem is the ROMANTICISM TIME PERIOD. During this time period many authors focused their literature on EMOTION OVER REASON and INDIVIDUALITY. The underlying message of this poem is that sometimes our souls struggle and we need to keep trying and this is conveyed through a metaphor.

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A beautiful pink lotus (NATURE)
I looked where it was sitting alone in the pond,
I looked at it's beauty in the midst of the muddy water
It floated there beautiful growing, growing, growing despite its origins
Ever growing illuminating its beauty, ever tirelessly growing strong (EMOTION/REASON)

And you O my soul where you're at,
Surrounded, lonely, by endless amounts of space
Constantly trying, hoping, praying someone will walk by
to stare at your beauty

Till the day you get the recognition you deserve, till your roots can no longer hold,
Till the beauty of yours gets noticed, O my soul. (INDIVIDUALITY)

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The time period of this poem is between the REALISM and MODERNISM PERIODS. During those periods many authors focused their literature on the UGLY SIDE OF LIFE with a PESSIMISTIC TONE using REALISTIC VIEW. The audience is showing Richard Cory's sadness in the final lines of his suicide.

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Whenever Cashier Boy was on shift
We the customers got impatient
He was slow and never swift (DETAILS)
Dirty habited, and lacking motivation

And he was always saying stupid things
And everyone sighed when he spoke
But still he continued muttering
Every day he smelled like smoke

And he was dumb- yes dumber than a nail-
And of course failed everything
Everyone thought he would bail (STEREOTYPE)
Then one day he finally did something

So on we teased until the night
And he went on unnoticed
And Cashier Boy, one fine night
Came up on top and got promoted (IRONY)