Tag Archives: Nostalgia

Larkin’s Attack on Nostalgia

By Robin Bates | Published: April 25, 2023

Larkin’s “I Remember” is an attack on Coventry for not having given him an idealized childhood.

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Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear?

By Robin Bates | Published: January 3, 2022

With our first snowfall of the year, I am taken back to the snowfalls of my childhood–and to Dylan Thomas’s “Childhood in Wales.”

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Mixed Emotions about My Alma Mater

By Robin Bates | Published: November 1, 2021

To understand my feelings of melancholy when I returned to my alma mater, I turned to poems by Lawrence, Housman, and Dylan Thomas.

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Time Flows On, Paris Remains

By Robin Bates | Published: March 2, 2018

I land in Paris today and will negotiate between nostalgia and the city as it presently is. Apollinaire has a wonderful Paris poem about time moving on.

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College Reunions: Feeling Understood

By Robin Bates | Published: June 25, 2013

College reunions won’t necessarily bury you in regret. They can make you feel less alone.

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Dreaming of Paris

By Robin Bates | Published: July 15, 2011

“Midnight in Paris” may be a celebration of Paris’s past, but ultimately Woody Allen’s film becomes a celebration of its present as well. We are living in a golden age right now.

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