The poet used the word “WE” to refer to other people who struggle with the hardship like he was. The title draws the reader’s attention before the main poem. The author wants the reader to think critically about the title and the powerful meaning a person can draw. However, my perspective a person that wears masks tends to hide his or her identity. Also, a person begins to display behaviors and attitudes that do not suit his or her own lifestyle, just too impressive the society. The “mask” could represent different colors of a person. The year the author seems to have written the poem, is during that time slavery has just begun and was yet to spread around the western society. “We wear the mask that grins and lies, this debt we pay to human
