Mild The Mist

• Mild the mist upon the hill


  Title of the poem by Emily Bronte
• Emily Bronte wrote this poem


  1839
• Emily Bronte


  • Victorian writer
  • Part of the famous Bronte literary family
  • Came from a middle-class clergy family, not rich
  • Wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell due to gender inequality at the time
  • Suffered personal tragedies like the deaths of her sisters
  • Wrote the famous novel Wuthering Heights, set on the Yorkshire moors
  • Remained unmarried her whole life
• The poem "Mild the mist upon the hill" never had an official title, the first line is used as the title
• Alliteration


  Use of repeated initial sounds, e.g. "mild the mist"
• The mist covering the hill


  Represents a break from sorrow and melancholy
• The day emerging from sadness


  Personified as "the day has wept its fill and spent its store of silent sorrow"
• The speaker reflecting on their youth and innocence


  Feels like a "child once more" under their father's "sheltering roof"
• The evening falling


  Brings a sense of rest and respite
• Blue, sweet mists


  Describe the mist as calm, pleasant and soothing
• Summer pall


  The mist casting a shadow, but one brought on by the pleasant summer
• Thick as morning tears


  Vivid simile describing the dense grass
• Dreamy scents and fragrance


  Sensory language evoking the fleeting nature of the moment
• The poem reflects on both the pain and joy of life