"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a renowned piece of literature that has been the subject of various literary criticisms over the years

... Cassie Weigel Mr. David Olsen, Instructor ENGA 202-07 Intro to Literary Studies 31 March, 2005 "We Wear the Mask" "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a renowned piece of literature that has been the subject of various literary criticisms over the years. Because of the poem's indirectness and generalized ambiguity, the interpretation of the "we" that wears the "mask" and why they do so is left unanimously undisclosed. It is up to the interpreter and the support given by the interpreter to produce a valid representation of the meaning that lies beneath the mask. One such analysis of "We Wear the Mask" is presented by Peter Revell on page 71 of his book Paul Laurence Dunbar, which was published in 1979 by G. K. Hall & Co. Unfortunately, the given argument nearly shames the profoundness of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem with its brevity and lack of sufficient support. In Revell's short

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