one-page reading

Read Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” & Alexandra Socarides’s LARB essay on “The New Colossus” (both required). What is Lazarus’s speaker’s understanding of American identity? How would you compare this understanding of American identity with the understanding of American identity in *either* William Carlos Williams’s “It is a Living Coral” or Tracy K. Smith’s “The United States Welcomes You” (your choice)?

Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/new-colossus?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1Kmh8ODT3QIVWlgNCh1fRAjQEAAYASAAEgL74_D_BwE

Alexandra Socarides’s LARB essay

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-poems-we-think-we-know-emma-lazaruss-the-new-colossus/#!