T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" might be of interest here.
Exile and return are archetypal concepts: You lose paradise, then you regain
it. In between you perhaps go on a spiritual quest.
America at that time was aka as New Eden or Earthly Paradise.
Thomas
"I've been chasing ghosts and I don't like it
I wish somebody would show me where to draw the line"
John Cale