Which of the following quotes best supports the idea of why people wear masks?

A
“This debt we pay to human guile” ( Line 3)
B
“Why should the world be over-wise, / In counting all our tears and sighs?” ( Lines 6-7)
C
“O great Christ, our cries / To thee from tortured souls arise.” ( Lines 10-11)
D
“We sing, but oh the clay is vile / Beneath our feet, and long the mile” ( Lines 12-13)

Poem:
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!

From the poem, the writer is trying to justify the use of masks to hide our sorrows from the world so that it won't see our bleeding hearts and mouths that have been lots of "subtleties".

The central idea of the poem is to wear the mask and disguise our true feelings to the world while we pay the debt of not showing our true feelings to people that matter to us.

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divyamadaan8054 divyamadaan8054 · Answer 2 · 2021-11-30T15:13:46+01:00

The writer of the poem is attempting to explain the usage of masks to disguise our sufferings from the world so that it does not see our wounded hearts and mouths, which have many "subtleties".

"This debt we pay to human guile" (Line 3)

The poem's basic premise is to put on a mask and hide our actual feelings from the public while paying back the debt of not expressing our true thoughts to those who important to us.

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