We Wear the Mask

"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? "
How does the poet use literary devices? Why might he/she use these devices?
I think the poet wrote this because he knows what it is like to hide something and have to act like there is nothing wrong with him. He also may have wrote this because he knows that people all the time are trying to cover something up by acting different then they normally do trying to act normal. The feelings that the poet is trying to convey is a sad feeling. I think he succeeded because it makes you think of all the times you have done it trying to hide their feelings from the world. In the Poem the poet used literary devices like, bleeding hearts and a mouth with myriad subtletics. He used these devices to symbolize the ultimate meaning of the poem, and feelings.