Conclusion to mild the mist upon the hill
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Mild the Mist Upon the Hill is a title that almost couldn’t be more “poetic” to a potential reader. It uses alliteration to give it an almost catchy sound (try saying “mild the mist” five times fast), and it also uses natural imagery to instil an image of peace for the reader. This is one of the most interesting aspect of poems that are technically unnamed. “Mild the mist upon the hill” is actually the first line of the poem, acting in lieu of a title that Emily Brontë either never gave the piece, or of a title that has since been lost to history. Whatever the case, Mild the Mist Upon the Hill manages to be interesting from first glance, because it is a title that does a very good job of indicating the kind of verse that Brontë is using in this moving piece.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the fourth verse is that the narrator is once again absent, and the reader instead experiences another third-person observation of the scene. This makes it very difficult to tell — is the speaker viewing the scene through their eyes in the present, or through their eyes in the past? That the dew is one again described as “morning’s tears” suggests the former, while the “dreamy scents” suggest the latter. This verse instead appears to combine the two perspectives, and imagine each individual strand of “long green grass” as giving off the scent of “other years.”
The abstract nature of this verse gives the poem a very open-ended conclusion, and the combined perspectives offered contribute to this. The first line of the verse describes the scene physically; the second line describes it from a more dreary perspective; the third line provides a more positive outlook; and the final line is of a very neutral tone. One potential meaning could be that each strand of grass represents a potential path for the future to take for the child; alternatively, it could simply be reinforcement of the idea of how much better life was when those years were still ahead.
The final verse effectively encompasses themes of sadness, of innocence in childhood, and of trying to break away from hardships, if only temporarily. The story being told here is more thematic than realistic, and it seems likely that this was Brontë’s intention, to describe a state of being more so than to tell a story, and her descriptions in Mild the Mist Upon the Hill are very well-conveyed and described in such a way as to enable the reader to take part in feeling this story alongside its author