#RIP VAN WINKLE NOSTALGIA QUOTES WINDOWS#

The Romantic poets were known to be in touch with nature and often speaking of it in their works, using themes of simplicity and naturalness in poetry. Lloyd Daigrepont’s article “Rip Van Winkle and the Gnostic Vision of History” also explains that Rip is “neighborly and close to Nature”, a common idea of poetry during this time of the Romantic Era.

In a sense, this older generation is much like the authors and poets of the time who write in ‘the today’ like Byron writing mock epics to comment on the rumors of the League of Incest or, though admittedly less known, Polidori writing “Vampyre” to highlight the mistreatment he received from Lord Byron. With this description, Irving insinuates that this older generation works hard to sustain themselves, as seen with Rip working on his neighbor’s farms, yet don’t seem to put much effort into anything else, such as their own dwellings for the generations to come.

#RIP VAN WINKLE NOSTALGIA QUOTES WINDOWS#

As Irving says, the village was “built of small yellow bricks from Holland, having latticed windows and gable fronts… (which to tell the precise truth, was sadly time-worn and weather beaten)”. Irving also illustrates the village that Rip lives in, reflecting the attitude that Irving suggests this generation has. Essentially, Rip isn’t the type of man to work on his own land but will happily volunteer to do anything for any one of his neighbors in town. Irving paints the picture of Rip being quite lazy, yet content in life, writing that Rip “was ready to attend to any body’s business but his own but as to doing family duty, and keeping his farm in order, he found it impossible”.

As the story begins, Irving is already hard at work describing the type of man that not only Rip is, but the type of man he represents. Irving’s short story “Rip Van Winkle” follows a man aptly named Rip through his twenty-year sleep into a new world.

Rip van winkle nostalgia quotes