Amercian Romanticism

One of the romantic situation in the story would have to be can't no body go to sleep for 20 years, and another would have to be no one can stay alive for ever. He was sleep until everything in his little village was cleaned up and when he woke up he was walking around and his doughter found him and after that they didn't say anything about him dieing. To me the story is funny because he tend to mind everybody esle's business expect his own.
{Rip’s story was soon told, for the whole twenty long years had been to
him but as one night. The neighbors stared when they heard it; some were
seen to wink at each other, and put their tongues in their cheeks: and the
self-important man in the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was over, had
returned to the field, screwed down the corners of his mouth, and shook his
head—upon which there was a general shaking of the head throughout the
assemblage.}



Ok, first of all who would wanna walk through some woods when there wife gets on there nerves. And who find mystical creatures and fall asleep around them and stay asleep until about 20 years. Either way it goes I would have never left and went walking in the woods, and I bet the Romantics liked that to. I bet they were glad he was able to go see nature and explore it while he was in there. And since people are from the city and it be really nasty.Some people would like to go see what nature looks like. In there eyes they see that it could be clean and that it could be a wonderful site to see.


[a long ramble of the kind on a fine autumnal day, Rip had
unconsciously scrambled to one of the highest parts of the Kaatskill
mountains. He was after his favorite sport of squirrel shooting, and the still
solitudes had echoed and re-echoed with the reports of his gun. Panting
and fatigued, he threw himself, late in the afternoon, on a green knoll,
covered with mountain herbage, that crowned the brow of a precipice.
From an opening between the trees he could overlook all the lower country
for many a mile of rich woodland.]


And when he went out 2 the forest he found these little elves that made him go 2 sleep 4 20 whole years.`


Well Ithink the poem was trying to say no matter how poor or no matter how unimportant you are, you will still die like a king or queen or what ever. Death comes to everbody no matter how wealth or popular you are. And that you should go out and imagine all the dead people that are in the earth. And Bryant thought this was to comfort youhe wasn't trying to scare you.And once you die you will be equal with all the people who was king and queens. and the romantic part of the poem is that once you die. You'll be equal. Youwon't have to feel less about urself because ya'll gonna be in the same spot and where ya'll going be a queen or a king won't matter you'll all be the same in a grave.

{The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes In the full strength of years, matron, and maid, The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles And beauty of its innocent age cut off,-- Shall one by one be gathered to thy side, By those, who in their turn shall follow them. So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustain'd and sooth'd By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.}

Well the point of ropewalk was to tell us how tired some you get and it be so hot that you start seeing stuff that isn't really there. And it was telling us it was like a prison yard. the people were yelling at them to hurry and get there work done. and he was using his imgination to get away from his work. One image that stands out to me is:

{Two fair maidens in a swing,Like white doves upon the wing, First before my vision pass;Laughing, as their gentle handsClosely clasp the twisted strands, At their shadow on the grass.}

Because you could use that painting and imagnate yourself being there and that could help you to get away from the real world and all the troubles that you are around.

Like look at this picture you can't help but imagine yourself there and putting yourself and them people shoes. like i imagine myself standing on a big cliff. and this can help people get away. Becasuse if you was so angry at someone to the point you wanna kill someone all you gotta do is look at this picture imagne your self looking at it and killing all your problems.