"Who wrote the poem called ""The New Colossus"" that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty?"
The New Colossus to the forbidding colossus of Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias". The poem is read aloud in the eponymous episode,"New Colossus", in the 2016 Netflix web series "The OA". The poem was also recited in part in "" and referenced by the title of . The New Colossus "The New Colossus" is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. This poem was written as a donation to
The New Colossus the poem was written. The "huddled masses" are the many immigrants coming to the United States (many of them through Ellis Island at the port of New York). Paul Auster wrote that "Bartholdi's gigantic effigy was originally intended as a monument to the principles of international republicanism, but 'The New Colossus' reinvented the statue's purpose, turning Liberty into a welcoming mother, a symbol of hope to the outcasts and downtrodden of the world." John T. Cunningham wrote that "The Statue of Liberty was not conceived and sculpted as a symbol of immigration, but it quickly became so as immigrant ships