I don't know why they'd put that in there like that but new and old could just mean their ways. I don't know if you're talking about slaves or something else. Since I don't have the material I don't quite know how to help you.
The speaker opens the poem with the declaration that we wear masks that hide our true feelings. He goes on to emphasize the severity of the pain and suffering that these masks try to cover up ;by the end we understand that all of the politeness and subdued emotions are just phony disguises of the painful truths that hide behind them. And those masks certainly anyt doing anyone any favors.
Answer:
I am also confusion.
Explanation:
You didn't give us the story to read. Otherwise, I could've helped you.
Im pretty sure its, intelligence quotient
