Writing searches for a homeland. Behind a poem or a story is a landscape, or several if there is a journey. The setting may be in a wild, remote place. Or it may be in a city.. Or it may be an imagined place, like Xanadu.
Aldous Huxley began his career writing for Vogue. Assigned to write about the trivial and the transient was, he said...
There is an Old English poem, The Ruin, describing a city, generally believed to be Bath, as it was in the Dark Ages.
Words know their place. They seek a homeland. The location is never arbitrary.
