Category: Nostalgia

Nostalgia, a powerful emotion that tugs at the strings of memory, is delicately explored in D. H. Lawrence’s poem, “Piano.” The speaker, a grown man, grapples with the dichotomy of embracing his adulthood while being irresistibly drawn to the warmth of his joyous childhood. Lawrence skillfully employs imagery, diction, tone, and a structured rhyme scheme…

Nostalgia Construct The term “nostalgia” was first used by Johannes Hoffer in 1688, and since then has been studied from a variety of perspectives. Looking into nostalgia’s origins, it derives from two Greek roots nostos and algos. First, nostos, “to return home/ to one’s native land”. Secondly, the root algos, or “pain, suffering, or grief”,…

In the play Waiting for Godot, the two characters Vladimir and Estragon wait for an unknown person named Godot who never arrives. When the two hobos thought about taking their lives, they waited to hear what Godot thinks. While Godot never shows up, the two men also forget about what happened in the previous day.…

Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class is a fascinating depiction of the 1960s. X-Men dabbles in period nostalgia as it gazes into the future, using the Cuban Missile Crisis as a backdrop to explore how the past informs the present. First Class is primarily a historical fantasy that places its characters at the center of the…

The word Nostalgia derives from the Greek word nóstos, which means ‘return home’ (Davis, 1977) and álgos that signifies ‘pain’ or ‘longing’. This term is frequently interconnected to the suffering from “homesickness”, melancholy and anxiety (Wilson, 2014). By the late twentieth century, nostalgia is no longer looked upon as a mental disorder, but regarded as…