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    Jan 6, 2021 · The term homecoming has been around for centuries, but in North America at the turn of the twentieth century, it acquired two new, more specific meanings. The meaning of homecoming was originally quite literal, referring to a return to one’s home after a time spent away.

  2. The earliest known use of the noun homecoming is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for homecoming is from around 1405, in the writing of Geoffrey Chaucer, poet and administrator.

  3. The earliest known use of the adjective home-coming is in the mid 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for home-coming is from 1655, in the writing of Samuel Rutherford, Church of Scotland minister and political theorist.

  4. O'Neill began writing dialogue again and completed a draft of "Homecoming," but on 3 December he decided "to rewrite before even calling it first draft" (Work Diary 69-70, 76, 78-79).

  5. The two Hölderlin essays describe the poet as a wanderer returning home and delineate the essence of the poet as a poet. “Homecoming” treats the theme with bolder strokes, while “Re-collection” examines the necessity of the journey, its meaning, and the exact nature of homecoming.

  6. Bruce Dawe writes of his experiences in the Vietnam War in the poem “Homecoming”. By using many different language techniques he conveys his sadness and sympathy for the loss of the lives of the young soldiers.

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  8. Aug 14, 2014 · The word itself has its etymology in the Greek nostos (homecoming) + algia (pain), but the condition is more multifaceted, combined of equal parts of homesickness, self-indulgence, sentimentality, and an alertness to the genuine, confected, or nonexistent pleasures of other times, other ages, and other places.

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