Talk:The New Colossus

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saving a draft here, cause I'm not so sure about it. de:The New Colossus

 The New Colossus is an Emma Lazarus poem, written for and inscribed in the Statue of Liberty.

Not like the brazen giant of a Greek fame, Headline text small The allusion here is to the [[Colossus of Rhodes small With conquering limbs astride from land to land small The Colossus of Rhodes at one time was imagined to stand atride the harbour of Rhodes, but this is now felt to have been incorrect

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

the twin cities that frame New York Harbor are New York and Elizabeth, New Jersey <-- this still needs to be checked, may be NY + Brooklyn?

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she

With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me.

I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

Regarding the "twin cities" it most assuredly is a reference to NYC and Brooklyn, which were still seperate cities at the time the poem was written in 1883, but would have both been considered majo enough to warrant mention. Also, Jersey City, not Elizabeth, is the closest NJ city to Liberty Island.

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I knew this from don't remember where, and found further substantiation at Talk:Emma_Lazarus
Will also edit German version
--BjKa 09:34, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Not sure it should be mentioned on the page...

But I was looking at the Bedtime for Democracy cover [1], and the lower left says "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free". A shame WP can't store the whole version, it could be when the time comes for copyright off on this, no originals will be left? {sjöar} What Does the new Colussus mean?