Essays on Nostalgia

Imagine America without the artifacts that reflect and influence our culture. Society would lack the entities that have made America what it is today. In recent years, one could make the argument that cultural artifacts have negatively and positively influenced society. Through mediums of survival, crime and controversy, guns have had a substantial impact on…

D. H. Lawrence’s Piano shows a man experiencing nostalgia as he listens to a woman singing which reminds him of his childhood. The poem starts with the man hearing the soft singing of a woman which takes him on a mental journey down memory lane and he sees visions of his childhood flashing in front…

D. H Lawrence’s poem “Piano” shows a man recalling his childhood as he is listening to a woman singing. This poem is laden with nostalgia and pathos; the speaker is longing for the simplicity and comfort of years gone by. This poem has a very slow, harmonious tone, which is accentuated by its structure and…

Picture the mosh pit at a Germs concert. The area is complete chaos. People push and shove against each other, and it feels like a riot is about to break out any second. One punch is thrown and the crowd bursts into complete violence. The intense music has drawn out an atmosphere of anger and…

In Li-Young Lee’s, “I Ask My Mother to Sing,” four main stanzas are found; they are elaborated with memory, joyfulness, grief, and pleasant remembrances. The speaker implies tones of nostalgia as he remembers his father. The title “I Ask My Mother to Sing” is clearly a song that the speaker begs for his mother to…