1. The pain of the people who wear the mask is caused by the legally-imposed slavery and the lack of opportunities for freedom.
<h3>We Wear the Mask and Sympathy</h3>
In "We Wear the Mask" and "Sympathy," <em>Paul Laurence Dunbar</em> laments the unfortunate condition of black Americans traded in slavery as cartels.
2. The people in the poems remained helpless to change their situation amidst constitutionally-sanctioned slavery until the Fourteen Amendment. The constitutional sanctions created slavery as a kind of property ownership.
3. In "Sympathy," the cause of the injuries sustained by the bird in the cage is its confinement amidst endless struggles for freedom.
Brutal slavery with racial discrimination and segregation hoisted on the African-Americans was like a caged bird condition. They long for liberty that does not come.
4. A line from the poem that shows the sufferings of the bird is as follows: <em>"I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till its blood is red on the cruel bars."</em>
5. Could a caged bird open the bars of iron that caged it? The bird cannot change its situation because it lacks essential freedom.
Thus, "We Wear the Mask” and “Sympathy” demonstrate that the prison of slavery was not a choice for the blacks.
6. The theme of <em>Countee Cullen's "Any Human to Another"</em> is the need to share in the sufferings, griefs, sorrows, and joys of others. Nobody should become an emotional island. That situation could suffocate, especially when one plays from one extreme of the sharing spectrum.
7. An example of figurative language in the poem is <em>"Your grief and mine Must intertwine </em><em>Like</em><em> sea and river."</em> This expression is a simile.
<h3>What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?</h3>
A simile compares two things or persons using such comparative words as "as" and "like," while a metaphor states that one thing is the other. For example, <em>"Obi is a lion,"</em> and not <em>"Obi behaves like a lion."</em>
8. Using such beautiful figurative expressions in the poem enlivens the readers, passing the message without too many words or their realistic meanings.
9. The role that the <em>lack of justice and fairness</em> play in "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar is that injustice and unfairness also gradually murder the practitioner. This means that injustice and unfairness are not fair to the performer. They injure not only the wrongdoer's conscience but their freedom and liberty. The slave-owner or master is also a fellow slave.
For instance, when a person encounters a group of mentally-depressed individuals, you have the feeling that their leader must be mentally-deranged also. According to an African adage, it takes a madman to escort some mad persons to the marketplace.
Thus, we can conclude that when everybody enjoys liberty and pursues happiness, society is better for it than otherwise.
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