Longfellow Empty Nostalgia

Longfellow was ridiculed by different poets not just because of his obvious attempt of writing all his poems in trochaic tetrameter, but because he wrote this poem in a specific time where his city was being modernized. Because times in North America were changing, it is easy to infer that he might have as well felt an empty nostalgia. Empty because frankly, he had no idea how Native American communities lived, or how they survived due to the fact that, there are not Native Americans alive anymore. So, probably he just researched several stories and created one on his own. Longfellow feels a deep nostalgia when he sees how cities are building up and things change; this is why he embraces nature the best he can throughout his poem and expresses