Homework

Click this link to go to the annotated interactive version of the Emma Lazurus poem, "The New Colossus":

Interactive "The New Colossus"

Directions:
Click on all of the hot words in the poem to read further on its meaning. Then line by line, you are to translate the meaning of the poem in terms of how you were enlightened by interactive poem itself, Apply the new meaning to her words and see how the meaning of the poem starts to evolve into a different message than you first thought.

Example:

Line 1- 
"Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,"
(when you click on the words "brazen giant" you are shown the meaning the poet had in mind when she wrote the poem.)

She is comparing the Statue of Liberty to the Colossus statue of the ancient Greeks (which was said to be one of the wonders of the ancient world.

Line 2-
 "With conquering limbs astride from land to land," (When you click on the bold words you see that she is again describing the Greek Colossus)

 This another comparison of the original Colossus with this modern American colossus we call the Statue of Liberty.