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The New Colossus. The New Colossus is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849â1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. In 1903, the poem was engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. 1 History of the poem.
The statue was a gift to the United States from the people of France, and represents Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, bearing a torch and a tablet upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet.