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Literature

A Summary and Analysis of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s ‘We Wear the Mask’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘We Wear the Mask’ is a poem by the African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), written in 1895 and included in Dunbar’s 1896 collection Majors and Minors. In the poem, Dunbar writes about the fact that many members of a marginalised community (which can […]