"New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus

[@TEDEd]

We hope you love the poems we've animated for this series as much as we do! Tell us about your favorite poem and why we should animate it next. We love getting pitches from you guys. Check out the whole series here: bit.ly/TEDEdTheresAPoemForThat​

[@ujjwalsevra2249]

Tulips by Sylvia Plath! It has such intense imagery, metaphors and similes. It is about her experience during her days through shock therapy. She has given a haunting yet beautiful description of the room she was in - where everything was white for her. But there were Red tulips, beside her which gives her bad feelings since she wanted to drown in the sorrow sea of white but those tulips - as she described - were bloody red and were eating her share of oxygen. Everyone needs to be introduced to confessional poetry and its magic on the reader. Please do it for the sake of those who don't even know how great poet Sylvia was. Thanks you either way

[@ujjwalsevra2249]

How selfish of me not to say a thank for this beautiful poem you introduced me to. Hugs from the world 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@samsalin]

Look upon my works, and tremble

[@tlaw8977]

Hey a little suggestion..why don't you guys write down the poem in the description box so that we can read along. Great poem btw. Much love

[@felixlee9645]

why no riddles?

[@zhainaangelikatayem7646]

Chills. Literal chills. Not even a minute into the video and I shivers were running down my spine. This was beautiful. I hope one I’ll be able to write something that will move people as this moved me.

[@doodleBurgers]

well the video's only a minute long so

[@a_l_i_c_e_are]

ok bestie

[@JohnVance]

We’ve betrayed the meaning of that monument so horribly. This poem is something to aspire to.

[@Toadey2012]

What? 😶

[@TheAcquibajo]

John Vance- YES! You’re exactly correct on both counts. With the years come changes, some good, some bad. But to honor our magnificent country, we must keep trying.

[@r1areone377]

We have not, we accept more immigrants than any other nation on earth, this poem still rings true

[@auronsavant]

Per capita it up bucko @@r1areone377

[@KimberlyLee-mo8vx]

Amen

[@ProfessorPolitics]

I couldn't think of a better time for this poem than now. The reading was fantastic and accompanying animations perfect. Brillaint job.

[@vdwhite687]

Professor Politics #ThisIsVirtue

[@jeannedarc143]

Professor, it also applies up to the present.

[@sarielpg]

How appropriate, on so many levels. Lady Liberty, may your beacon shine on for many years as a testament for all America should stand for. Thank you TED-Ed.

[@davidhidary]

Makes a strong statement about immigrants.very cool ted

[@ravenn2631]

David H I suggest looking into this short but meaningful TED ideas article about immigrants. It might help. A lot. (ideas.ted.com/world-population-is-headed-for-a-steep-decline-yet-canadas-is-growing-whats-its-secret/)

[@drrisen-9442]

Seb 96 The reason people first settled here is to escape the hate and persecution of unjust rulers of an unjust land. The thing that I find interesting about people like you is that you consistently forget our ancestors were not just settlers, but religious refugees, rebellious men, and fortune seekers. Our heritage is that of a people who would seek not repeat the same mistakes of the old world. Who are we then to deny those who seek their fortune or refugee like our predecessors before us? Are we so arrogant as to believe we alone have a fundamental right to this creed? It brings to mind the words our founding fathers wrote so long ago in our Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Not just you, not just I, not just Americans, not just colonials... ALL MEN. All men have the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. As far as I am concerned to deny them these God-given unalienable rights is tantamount to treason, a betrayal of everything our forefathers stood, fought, bled, and died for.

[@10mimu]

DrRisen - "to escape the hate and persecution of unjust rulers in an unjust land". oh my god I thought no immigrants were war refugees :()

[@drrisen-9442]

Human Effigy ?

[@thegrassman6369]

I am The Grass Man and I enjoyed the healthy green color, it show's she's been watered properly

[@matmas1289]

Watering Grass be like: S U C C

[@josecarlo5825]

look's like im your 69th like

[@linklayer1318]

Your surrounded by a bunch of hearted comments lol

[@Finn-hw2xd]

The raven from edgar ellan poe cause of obvious reasons:) Edit: Amazing series!

[@bootesvoid9688]

i'm happy for you

[@ozymandiasramesses1773]

sweet

[@papasscooperiaworker3649]

It's 1AM and I don't even live in New York but I'm grateful for this video. What beautiful animation and a soothing voice to go with it. Thanks TED-Ed (:

[@octaneblue6]

Thank you for this. For all of the talk in our nation about immigration, migrants, and refugees, somehow this poem-albeit stamped on a symbol of our nation-has not once come up in discourse. I think it would do the American people good to remember that the tired, the poor, and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free are indeed our national legacy.

[@melvinmerkelhopper5752]

You do realize the statue of liberty was designed by the French to commemorate America's liberation from the British right? It was only Jewish-communist traitors who made it about immigrants. (And by immigrants I mean Ethel and Julius Rosoenburg, Lona and Morris Cohen and other people w h sold our secrets to the Soviet Union)

[@alexandrooliveira3059]

Emma Lazarus is a descendant of Brazilian Jews who arrived in New York in 1654, who were fleeing the Pernambuco insurrection (War that led to the expulsion of the Dutch from the northeast of Brazil)

[@user-mr3wf3xy4t]

Please make a season 2! I love this series and makes everything easier with these videos. I recommend: -A Psalm of Life -If- -Mother to Son -Still I Rise

[@angrymoose3383]

Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teaming shore. Your homeless, tempest tost, send them to me. Truly the most moving words I have ever heard and I’m not even an American I’m just a bit North

[@hinataa70]

Oh my lord her voice is so majestic! ✨

[@bluescreening]

TedEd, making me care about poetry more than my English teacher ever could.

[@anenglishmanplusamerican7107]

Oh, that lady’s base voice, that literally gives the vibe of mother liberty. If she would’ve open the mouth, that’s how she would’ve spoken. My ancient land has it’s pomp and glory, but this country is something else. Much respect to you, cousin.

[@TheAcquibajo]

Pump or pomp?

[@anenglishmanplusamerican7107]

@@TheAcquibajo As a blind person leaving a comment, it’s more accurate to say I didn’t hear the word correctly, rather than ‘see’. I’ll edit the comment, thanks.

[@TheAcquibajo]

And much respect back to you sir.♥️

[@wolfgangvan-uber6515]

Here after finishing Wolfenstein: The New Order. So inspirational! Anyone else here for the same?

[@randompastahandle]

To quote someone who actually tried imagrating when the pome was written "that only let in the strong and healthy" nothing is as grand as it first appears.

[@yourethatmantis5178]

Everyone who's played the Civilization series knows at least part of this poem.

[@brucegao5353]

That was the poem BJ Blazkowicz read at the end of Wolfenstein New Order, also Wolfenstein New Colossus anyone?

[@Gillan1220]

Yeah. And the subtitle of the next game is a reference to this

[@zarasmith7034]

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti- it’s kind of a dark poem that also has a theme running through it of the depth of sisterly love and redemption. It would be lovely to see how the animation captures the wonderful imagery Rossetti describes

[@jamesgreen4212]

Wow, could you do one on Dante's Lost Paradise/Inferno/Pandemonium?

[@fedorchr7910]

Paradise Lost isn't Dante's work, it's Milton's. Dante wrote "Paradiso", translated as simply "Paradise", as a part of his famous "Divine Comedy".

[@jamesgreen4212]

@@fedorchr7910 shucks i messed up the poets XD. My bad

[@osse1n]

*Is it supposed to be the statue of Liberty?*

[@bri1085]

No it's mount Rushmore

[@randomrise1st72]

O'SSÉIN - Master Your Mind With Me It is, but there is more than just that You can check the link down in the description, which is an analysis of the poem🙂

[@lightwishatnight]

Maybe, a long ago, it was. Not today though.

[@nathaliegue6638]

It is a poem which explain the meaning of the statue of liberty ! If you have the chance to see the statue, the poem is written on a plaque by Emma Lazarus.

[@pokemonmaster0079]

That animation was epic.

[@jamesgreen4212]

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love Ted Ed, So do you too!

[@TEDEd]

You're making us blush!

[@jamesgreen4212]

@@TEDEd My pleasure ;D

[@bootesvoid9688]

@@jamesgreen4212 i'm happy for you

[@Macrocompassion]

The Us government seems to have forgotten this ideal when it come to children in refugee camps!

[@CM-lw3qf]

The Constitution preceded this.....

[@Reed_Walters]

Out of every speech I've leant my ear to... Even Ozymandias... This is the most ethereal of them all. I love humanity.

[@Gman240B]

I remember reading this for my American Studies class and writing a reflection for it during my 2nd year at college. I never thought an old poem I had to analyze for an assignment would be so nostalgic.

[@CausticLemons7]

Exceptionally quotable and extremely important.

[@syifams]

Can we give big applauses to the cool graphic in this video 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@michaelwu7678]

Can you animate Paradise Lost by John Milton please?

[@ManSeekingMeaning]

That’d be quite the undertaking, but I’d be there for it in a heartbeat.

[@michaelwu7678]

Hayate Yukimura We could start a nonprofit crowdfunding for it.

[@mmmk1616]

Yes! TED-Ed videos are too short! :)

[@minnermin]

This poem makes me want too go too new York city

[@McRyach]

🥹🥹🥹 Lady Liberty 🗽 is such a powerful symbol. I’m a first generation immigrant 🇺🇸 and can’t help weeping when I hear that poem 😭😭😭

[@Mloofylicious]

I'm glad Lazarus isn't alive to witness what happened to the welcoming light of her torch.

[@markreimers1304]

THE NEW COLOSSUS ohhhhhh how wonderful a prayer - past, present and future.

[@-4subscriberswithahammerad521]

The animation is so simple yet shows the story so well

[@PulseBox]

I've heard that if you are early, Ted-ed reads your comment.

[@TEDEd]

The rumors are true

[@PulseBox]

@@TEDEd Wow you actually read it.

[@Suranjan_Malik]

Wow What a recitation !! Beautiful. This presentation made this poem more beautiful..

[@cy9987]

lol that poem just sounds so ironic today..

[@NAVEMAN3]

That's beautiful. A perfect poem or the 4th of July.

[@aviewerman]

You can immediately recognize the style of the animator behind Yeat's Second Coming video from this series, Eoin Duffy, I love your work! Thanks TED-Ed for introducing me to him

[@corpuscallosum4677]

This is especially prophetic, poignant and uplifting after 1/20/2021. Feminine Ying energy will be the uplifting force for humanity's evolution in the Age of the Aquarius!

[@RileyOConnorOfficial]

Really enjoying all the different animation styles, and props to the narrators for excellent performances! One of my favorite poems is from the short story "The Tomb" by H.P. Lovecraft. It vivaciously explores the importance of celebrating life in contrast to the permanence of death. It's written in the style of a Victorian poem, with subtle allusions to the Greek poet Anacreon - also featured in the piece. As Lovecraft himself says through his lead character Jervas Dudley, it's an effusion of eighteenth-century Bacchanalian mirth; a bit of Georgian playfulness...

[@ujjwalsevra2249]

Tulips by Sylvia Plath! It has such intense imagery, metaphors and similes. It is about her experience during her days through shock therapy. She has given a haunting yet beautiful description of the room she was in - where everything was white for her. But there were Red tulips, beside her which gives her bad feelings since she wanted to drown in the sorrow sea of white but those tulips - as she described - were bloody red and were eating her share of oxygen. Everyone needs to be introduced to confessional poetry and its magic on the reader. Please do it for the sake of those who don't even know how great poet Sylvia was. Thanks you either way

[@naveenraj2008eee]

Hi ted-ed nice animation for this poem.. Could you do solitary reaper poem? It nice to hear... Thank you...🙏👍

[@aletheadsouza7740]

I hope this series never ends !!

[@standing_behind_you4152]

Is it about the statue of liberty?

[@ValensRenvhaggel]

There's literary a bronze plaque casted with this poem on the pedestal of the statue of liberty...

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

More than just that, it is what the Statue of Liberty symbolize: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness...

[@alaaajeel7558]

We love you from Iraq

[@maresgoez]

My favourite poem! thank you Ted ed!

[@benb405]

I weep every time I hear this poem.

[@thedylanshow1]

So beautiful, thank you! God bless America!

[@aaronbs1183]

I'm trying to write a poem at the moment. On the surface it is about your shadow but really about your ego. Thought that it had never really been done and was a cool idea. It is so hard though

[@ripmorld9909]

It is kinda ironic that some people is building a wall against The Exiles

[@jenl732]

eoin duffy!! great to see your work again!

[@a.p.b.9661]

New subscriber from Norway! Cant wait to binge watch all your content

[@hsryu5569]

The poetry videos always resonate with me. It feels poetic.

[@arghadeepchakraborty2209]

Abou Ben Adhem... would make such a wonderful addition to the series

[@cashews15]

Every video is different from the other . I discovered this channel earlier this day and i am bing watching thank you 💕

[@thebigsad9463]

The animation is pretty awesome

[@aa-xj8os]

The animation is awesome!

[@sanisha1116]

TED-Ed u are such amazing!! Such a wonderful channel!!!

[@joe_ESC]

I am so proud of having lived in New York City ❤️ one of the best places in the world

[@aloysiusbrown7233]

Gives you chills And the music

[@Myrtle2911]

How have we as a country for gotten this? Not all, I know. But so, so many.

[@OhighOSkater]

That’s the America I want to live in

[@youngdumbandeverythinginbe4680]

WOW! I JUST STUDIED THIS POEM FOR WORLD SCHOLAR’S CUP LITERATURE!

[@derogatorydimwit546]

What happened to the Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" video? Didn't they post one about it? I can't seem to find it?

[@Ace-1525]

Any excerpts from Milton or Blake or Dante maybe?

[@greentreesthai3414]

Her voice so clear

[@wildpavlik733]

background music is just perfect

[@PaulyT999]

This poem was written in 1883. Yet here we stand in 2021. And, yet we have still failed to live up to her promise. The fact that we in 138 years we still haven't figured this out yet is BS

[@ClapSniping]

The fake poem did everything it was intended to do lol it tricked Americans into believing they were always “a nation of immigrants” and change the demographics.

[@Rildar]

@@ClapSniping Hit the nail on the head

[@skeleex]

We will get there, the dreams of those laid rest upon this countries soil and those who have yet to walk upon it reverberate the hope for a better future, and as long as there is hope it shall come.

[@somerandommexican5681]

@@ClapSnipingtell me, who did the work?

[@valcto6834]

“I’m not dying of love” by Jaime Sabines, it is translated from spanish so I recommend reading it first in spanish, if you know of course, because it looses some of its romantic and dramatic element in English, nonetheless it’s an excellent poem.

[@pranabjyotideka6265]

I love this series. Please more poem

[@ranigoud1942]

its the first time I have seen that ted-ed hasn't published a video in over 5 days

[@JohnFish2009]

Thank you so much I had to remember this

[@henriquebranco8019]

These videos are great! Keep up the good work ted-ed

[@davidhidary]

Are there gonna be more videos?

[@МанзуловАлибек]

jorge luis borges poem if i could live again . It will be pleasure to me see video to this poem i wondering how beautiful would be the video maded by ted . Thank you for spending your time and energy for this kind of excellent job .

[@StefyDutz]

Not sure what I liked more, the poem or the animation.

[@MeatyTF2Mercs]

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." -The New Colossus.

[@nadiafareed2706]

This animation is soo much epic💯💯

[@isaiahdobesh5109]

Send me your unloved, for I shall love them. Send me your unwelcome, for I shall welcome them.

[@annabelho7607]

TED Ed you nailed this poem! Animation still flawless. I would be interesting to see an interpretation of Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe or perhaps Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

[@whcolours9995]

America, land of the exiles, land of the tired, the weak, land of opportunity and freedom for all.

[@rozempire2843]

Yandere timmy Auditory Aka princewolfjr Do you live in America?

[@rozempire2843]

Yandere timmy Auditory Aka princewolfjr That’s great. Me too

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Great narration and animation.

[@sagiritrash2153]

This is what the US should have been. The land of hope. Yet it's ironic how hopeless it is now. Amazing vid as always TED-Ed and can you make a video on Lyric 17 by Jose Garcia Villa?

[@nishaverma4173]

Mother of Exiles!

[@hallabenmetir5147]

I need explanation of this poem any help please?

[@brandtlucasbrandt]

Very fitting for the 4th. Nice poem.

[@najibawar4861]

So beautiful yet so ironic given the time

[@auro1986]

is this poem played inside the statue?

[@rishhabhnaik2298]

Hey TED-ED This was wonderful ! Could we please have a video on the poem Daffodils by William Wordsworth ?

[@williamb.j.blaskowicz.5664]

WOLFENSTEIN:THE NEW COLOSSUS.

[@aharinparvin]

Please ted Ed I love the rime of the ancient mariner!!!!

[@shinatsuki8957]

0:28 Aw I thought you would say Statue of Liberty

[@XCM666]

Song texts can be poetry, right? I'd love to experience a recited and animated version of Sam Beam's _The Trapeze Swinger_

[@Saurabh_Tewari007]

I would really love to have an explanation for the poems

[@TEDEd]

Hey Saurabh Tewari! We have an analysis linked at the end of the video! For easy clicking: bit.ly/TEDEdColossusAnalysis

[@trigger_9642]

One Art would be phenomenal.

[@dpopluf7370]

Thanks for feeding my brain

[@saimam13]

Please make such video on LOCHINVAR by Sir Walter Scott! It's a beautiful poem and your animations will bag it!

[@sp0nge1337]

The polar opposite of drones mindlessly chanting about building walls.