Paul Laurence Dunbar expresses in “We Wear the Mask” the unreal behavior towards the highest race and the touched feelings as being an African American. At the first point, the title “We Wear the Mask” describes people that cover and hide their face. However, the mask represents the illusory smiles and happiness that African people show through the disguise because “It hides their cheeks and shades their eyes.” The traits of the cheeks

Countee Cullen enlightens us in his heartrending rhyme verses an “Incident” that he confronted as being an African American – “Nigger.” In the same way, Cullen and Wheatley are both naïve and innocent of discovering America with “Heart-filled, head-filled with glee.” Both of the poets feel the mystery of America becoming to them the luxury of cheerfulness and enjoyment. The reality is America, considering the white superior race, has a deep abhorrence and detestation towards Africans coming to America. Cullen tells the story of little boys and not adult people; “a Baltimorean poked out his tongue, and called me, “Nigger.” Even at an early age, little young American boys know the hate against black little boys. The bottomless and unbreakable discrimination that was born in America against colored people has been the only feeling against black people that they can remember and can only swallow it, keep it for their own. Besides, Cullen has a similar façade that is comparable to Dunbar’s mask. “The Baltimorean kept looking straight at me, and so I smiled,” represents the mask that Dunbar illustrates the imaginary and innocent smile. However colored people smile, there will always be an act of imposing upon the credulity of others by dishonesty.

and the eyes show the lines of bliss or the lines of gloom. The fact that those lines are hidden, the mask symbolizes their illusive bliss. Furthermore, the verse “With torn and bleeding hearts we smile” characterizes the hard feeling of suffering and hardship that obligates black people to undergo discrimination by ignoring it and by hiding the color of their skin. Moreover, Dunbar has the scrupulous way to express the pain using afflicting

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