{"id":12662,"date":"2024-03-06T06:17:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T06:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2024-03-06T21:50:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:50:34","slug":"poetry-politics-emma-lazarus-new-colossuseses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12662","title":{"rendered":"POETRY &amp; POLiTiCS: Emma Lazarus\u2019 New Colossuseses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"732\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8447-1-732x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12661\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8447-1-732x1024.jpg 732w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8447-1-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8447-1-768x1074.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/img_8447-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Emma Lazuras (img. src. Wiki\u2019 Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,<br \/>With conquering limbs astride from land to land;<br \/>Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand<br \/>A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame<br \/>Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name<br \/>Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand<br \/>Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command<br \/>The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.<br \/><br \/>\"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!\" cries she<br \/>With silent lips. \"Give me your tired, your poor,<br \/>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,<br \/>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.<br \/>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,<br \/>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!\"<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m not posting this because I particularly rate it. I just find it interesting, as a kind of nexus for multifarious issues, from poetry and art, to race and identity, nationalism and compassion, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who don\u2019t get it, the misquoted title is a reference to Count Arthur Strong, a contemporary comic icon who I really love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As my uncle Terry occasionally notes\/laments, things like blogs are often quite shallow. However, I make no apologies for the degrees to which I take my interests; sometimes I dive deeper, others I don\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this occasion this is really just a place for me to note the existence of the famed poem, not explore its many tendrils of potential meanings or interpretations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,With conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her nameMother of Exiles. From her beacon-handGlows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes commandThe air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.&#8221;Keep, ancient lands, your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=12662\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;POETRY &amp; POLiTiCS: Emma Lazarus\u2019 New Colossuseses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-3ie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12790,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions\/12790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}