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Which theme is found in both “We Wear the Mask” and "A Man Said to the Universe"?
All individuals must search to discover their places in the world.
Each person is one small part of a vast and unforgiving ecosystem.
People are ignorant to the greater forces in the world surrounding them.
People must accept their environments, even if they are not happy.
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Each person is one small part of a vast and unforgiving ecosystem.
Both poems stress the individual's smallness and vulnerability within a larger, indifferent/harsh system: Dunbar's speaker hides suffering under an oppressive society, and Crane's man is ignored by an indifferent universe.
Both poems stress the individual's smallness and vulnerability within a larger, indifferent/harsh system: Dunbar's speaker hides suffering under an oppressive society, and Crane's man is ignored by an indifferent universe.
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