In The Legend of Sleepy Hollow there were many ways that the story emphasized the theme of Romanticism. When you read it the author tells a story of a headless horseman ridding through the night at great speed. This allows you to use your imagination over the use of your brain. Now it is a known fact that nothing without a brain can function, but with this you get a chance to imagine something like this happening. It is in many ways that you can read this story and go into something of an imaginary land and not always have to in a way use your brain.

Another way it shows it is the mentioning of a feeling of sleepiness coming over you as soon as you enter the town. Again it allows you to imagine these types of things and in some ways imagine that you are there and have that feeling come over you. Once again we know that the atmosphere can not make our body produce sleep hormones that make us tired, but the ability to be able to think of a place that could do this is extremely entertaining