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A sonnet 'The New Colossus'
The New Colossus
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty ("Liberty Enlightening the World"). In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
how was the statue of liberty brought to the us On June 17, 1885, a French steamer arrived in New York with the crates holding the disassembled statue on board. who designed it? Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi what does it symbolise? Liberty has this designer done any other work? Yes - Statues at Clermont-Ferrand; he sculpted a bronze memorial of Jean Rapp who is this person of the bronze memorial? A French Army officer during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. what was the origin of the liberty statue? The idea of a monument presented by the French people to the United States was first proposed by Édouard René de Laboulaye. The project is traced to a mid-1865 conversation between Laboulaye, a staunch abolitionist, and Frédéric Bartholdi, a sculptor. was it ever renovated? Yes - in 1984 how were funds raised for its construction? Large number of money-raising events, an auction of art and manuscripts, poet Emma Lazarus was asked to donate an original work; Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the "New York World" announced a drive to raise $100,000. how many years did the construction take? UNANSWERABLE
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The New Colossus [SEP] Introduction
"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty ("Liberty Enlightening the World"). In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.