What are the classic works describing homesickness in western literature?

Homesickness is a common feeling of many homeless people. From ancient times to the present, we have seen, heard or learned a lot of literary works and film and television works about homesickness. In ancient times, there was Li Bai's "Thinking about a Quiet Night" and Du Fu's "Looking at Spring": "After three months of bonfire, a letter from home is worth a ton of gold." That is the helplessness and sorrow for the country in peril, and the helplessness and sorrow for the difficulty of returning home. Nowadays, the most widely known is Yu Guangzhong's Homesickness, which reveals the author's nostalgia for his hometown between the lines.

In fact, most of the literary works we are familiar with about homesickness are domestic, but we may not be very familiar with the western literary works about homesickness. I personally learned the Odyssey in Homer's epic in a foreign literature class some time ago, only to find that this work involves homesickness.

Homer's epic is a great epic, including Iliad and Odyssey. According to legend, this epic was written by Homer, a blind poet in ancient Greece, so I won't study it here. The Iliad mainly describes a famous battle, the Trojan War. Interestingly, it was the ten-year war triggered by robbing women, and the content was wonderful.

The Odyssey, however, tells the story of Odysseus, the god of war, who went through hardships after the war and drifted at sea for ten years, and finally returned to his hometown, killing the suitor who invaded his palace and courted his wife, and reuniting with his wife and children. Odysseus went through all the hardships just to return to his hometown to reunite with his wife and children. His spirit touched the gods on Olympus, so they helped Odysseus go home. Although he experienced a series of hardships, Odysseus' firm belief in returning home remained unchanged, which was particularly touching.