Poetry
Summary of The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus Emma Lazarus’s immortal words, “Give me your tired, your poor,/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” may have become indelible in the collective American memory, but they did not arrive there overnight. Indeed, Lazarus’ sonnet to the Statue of Liberty went unnoticed until after Read more…