This course is designed for students taking high school English. Our class will explore ideas, concepts, and themes within the realm of literature and students will be afforded the opportunity to consume ideas, produce thoughts, and engage in personalized, academic learning. This course requires reading, writing, speaking, listening, and the ability to think independently.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Thursday, May 3, 2012
We Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
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 over-wise,
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 cries
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!
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