We
Wear the Mask Analysis
By
Amy Woodward
We Wear The Mask
By Catherine Clinton
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 overwise,
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 crises
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!
In my opinion this poem reflects the theme of prejudice in To
Kill a Mockingbird by showing the reader how horrible and
misunderstood life can be when people are prejudice. This poem echoes the
way of the South during TKM. The mask would be the words of the
town. It would be all the things the women talk about but no one allows
the truth to be shown. The poem is an analogy of prejudice to me. It some
what has its own mask on, because it is talking of something much more
great and deep than just wearing an actual mask. It talks about the social
mask of society. |