In the poem mild the mist upon the hill what is meant by morning tears
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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.
Personification: morning cannot cry, but it is an emotive way to describe dew.
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