Homework for 6/7 - october 28

 (If you are looking for the 8th grade CEs - scroll all the way down to the next entry).  

The following poem was written in 1883 by a woman named Emma Lazarus. It is engraved on the tablet that is part of the statue of liberty. 

The New Colossus

by Emma Lazarus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, 

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

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. 

"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 me, 

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"'

Answer in your HJ - at least a paragraph each: 

1. Why do you think this poem is part of the Statue of Liberty?

2. The line: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." is the most famous line in this poem. How does it relate to immigration?