During the Romantic period, many authors wrote of emotion and feeling. Love is the most well-known and over-used emotion. During the Romantic period, many authors wrote of love, Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are some examples. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the courtship relationships expressed in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Longfellow. Delving into how each man’s strategy succeeded or failed, and how the women responded. A broad overview of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow encompasses a man, by the name of Ichabod Crane, and his journey as he tries to win over the heart of a Katrina Van Tassel. As he attempts to win her love, a man, by the name of
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The Romantic period was written out of emotion and vivid description of nature; yet having some logic woven in as well. In the two stories we have compared throughout this paper, it becomes obvious that these stories were written in, none other than, the Romantic time for they are nothing but emotion and vivid description. Prosopopoeia, Topographia, and Prosopographia, are all ways to describe nature, characteristics, and emotion. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving wrote “A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose,”(2) this is an example of Prospopoeia, also known as personification. Irving also wrote “his school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copy-books.”(5) This is an example of Topographia, describing a place. Longfellow, used prosopographia, vividly describing a face, “Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was already flaked with patches of snow, as hedges sometimes in November.”(1) In the end, these books were full of description and emotion as they described the struggles and joys of courtships in the 18th century Romantic
The Romantic period was written out of emotion and vivid description of nature; yet having some logic woven in as well. In the two stories we have compared throughout this paper, it becomes obvious that these stories were written in, none other than, the Romantic time for they are nothing but emotion and vivid description. Prosopopoeia, Topographia, and Prosopographia, are all ways to describe nature, characteristics, and emotion. In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving wrote “A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose,”(2) this is an example of Prospopoeia, also known as personification. Irving also wrote “his school-house was a low building of one large room, rudely constructed of logs; the windows partly glazed, and partly patched with leaves of old copy-books.”(5) This is an example of Topographia, describing a place. Longfellow, used prosopographia, vividly describing a face, “Brown as a nut was his face, but his russet beard was already flaked with patches of snow, as hedges sometimes in November.”(1) In the end, these books were full of description and emotion as they described the struggles and joys of courtships in the 18th century Romantic