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The world is given a human trait in which it can count but it cannot

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Let The world dream

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The mask hides our cheeks and shades our eyes

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The mask hides our cheeks and shades our eyes

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Why should the world be over- wise

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The mask that grins and lies.

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1. Why should the world be over-wise
2. But let the world dream otherwise

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why should the world be over-wise : personification because the world has humans, but does not have the human abilities to be wise, let alone be overwise (:

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Stanza 1 Line 2 "It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes"

Stanza 2 Line 1 "Why should the world be over-wise"

Stanza 3 Line 5 "But let the world dream otherwise"

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Counting all our tears and sighs

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The Mask is given the ability to smile, suggesting that it is a false front that hides the pain and suffering if the wearer.

The Mask is given the ability to grin and lie, suggesting that it is deceptive and hides the true emotion of the wearer

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WE WEAR THE MASK BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

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WE WEAR THE MASK BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

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Identify the personifications from the poem.

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 over-wise,

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!