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 \nPage 4:KJ.Historical/CORBIS  \nCopyright ◎2007 Benchmark Education Company,LLC.All rights reserved.No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photocopy,recording,orany information storage or retrieval system,without permission in writing from the publisher.  \nISBN:978-1-4108-7953-0  \nFor ordering information,call Toll-Free 1.877.236.2465 orvisit our Web site at www.benchmarkeducation.com.  \n\n| Emma Lazarus’s  \u003Cbr>The New Colossus  \u003Cbr>a play adaptation   |\n| --- |\n\nSpotlight on the Classic  \n# The Poem's Origins\n\nmma Lazarus wrote“The New Colossus”in 1883 for an artauction.The purpose was to raise money to build a pedestalfor a statue called \"Liberty Enlightening the World,\"a recent giftto the United States from France.The statue had not yet beenerected in New York Harbor and the poem was forgotten for manyyears.In 1903,sixteen years after Lazarus's death,someone found“The New Colossus”in a pile of papers and arranged to have itengraved on a plaque on the pedestal of the newly erected statue.  \nTo this day,the Statue of Liberty and the poem on its baserepresent freedom,liberty,and friendship between nations.Theland on which the statue stands,originally named Bedloe's Island,is now called Liberty Island.The statue is one of the first thingspeople see when coming to New York by boat.  \nImmigrants onthe steamshipGermanic passthe newly erectedStatue of Liberty.  \n2  \nD  \nThe Statue of Liberty,also called Lady Liberty,consists of threeparts:the base,the pedestal,and the statue itself.In her left hand,she holds a tablet;in her right,a lighted torch.She wears a crownthat has seven points,or rays.Each point stands for one of theseven continents of the world.  \nMillions of Immigrants  \n\n| By the early 1880s,when Emma Lazarus was in her thirties,  \u003Cbr>New York was a changing city.Thousands of immigrants,many  \u003Cbr>of them Russian Jewish refugees fleeing violent,bloody attacks  \u003Cbr>known as pogroms,moved to New York.The overcrowding and  \u003Cbr>poverty that the new immigrants faced disturbed Emma Lazarus.  \u003Cbr>To help the immigrants,she found places for them to live and  \u003Cbr>created classes that taught English and American culture.  \u003Cbr>Pogroms in Russia continued long after Lazarus's lifetime.A major  \u003Cbr>series of attacks in 1905 caused another wave of immigration to  \u003Cbr>America.But Jewish refugees from Russia were not the only people  \u003Cbr>to leave Europe in the late 1800s to early 1900s.Between 1880  \u003Cbr>and 1920,more than twenty-three million people immigrated to  \u003Cbr>the United States searching for jobs and freedom from oppression.  \u003Cbr>Four million Italians,mostly from southern Italy,were escaping  \u003Cbr>extreme poverty and overcrowding.Germans,Poles,Austrians,  \u003Cbr>Irish,Greeks,and Hungarians,among other nationalities,came to  \u003Cbr>American shores in hopes of a better life.They all went through a  \u003Cbr>lengthy entrance process at the immigration station on Ellis Island,  \u003Cbr>near the Statue of Liberty.   |\n| --- |\n\n# The New Colossus\n\nby Emma Lazarus  \nNot like the brazen giant of Greek fame,  \nWith conquering limbs astride from land to land;  \nHere at our sea-washed,sunset gates shall stand  \nA mighty woman with a torch,whose flame  \nIs the imprisoned lightning,and her name  \nMother of Exiles.From her beacon-hand  \nGlows world-wide welcome;her mild eyes command  \nThe air-bridged harbor that twin ci","cbCaighALn24fabp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaighALn24fabp","pdf",4229356,28,"English","# The Poem's Origins\n## The New Colossus\n## What Is a Sonnet?\n## Colossus of Rhodes\n## The Author of the Classic","[{\"question\":\"When and why did Emma Lazarus write “The New Colossus”?\",\"answer\":\"Emma Lazarus wrote “The New Colossus” in 1883 for an art auction to raise money for a statue pedestal called “Liberty Enlightening the World.”\"},{\"question\":\"Why was the poem forgotten and later found again?\",\"answer\":\"After the auction, the poem was forgotten for many years. 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