Question

What romantic element is present in this excerpt from “Rip Van Winkle”?

In 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. 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. He saw at a distance the lordly Hudson, far, far below him, moving on its silent but majestic course, with the reflection of a purple cloud, or the sail of a lagging bark, here and there sleeping on its glassy bosom and at last losing itself in the blue highlands.

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Answer 1

I would say the romantic element is something to do with how the character in this passage is admiring somebody or something way down there from where he lays on the mountain. There isn't any general romantic elements going on like a show for love, intimacy, etc.

So this would be the best answer I could come up with.
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