Mild the mist upon the hill - Emily Brontë

Emotional release

pathetic fallacy - depressing weather (natural world) reflects her mood and feelings

Sibilance - soothing atmosphere

Emerging from a period of sadness (all sorrow has gone since the Earth has used up it’s tears)

Belonging is intertwined with Romanticism/nature

“wept”

“silent sorrow”

No, the day has wept its fill,/ Spent its store of silent sorrow

Caesura - emphasises shift in narrative (POV of a child) - sense of falling into the past

Personal pronoun - More intimate and personal

THEMES of family - offers security against the challenges of life - a place of BELONGING and comfort (sense of innocence and safety in the past)

Extension - prolongs the dreamy memory - fully indulges in her memories

“sheltering”

Oh, I’m gone back to the days of youth,/ I am a child once more,/ And ‘neath my father’s sheltering roof,

Contrasting imagery - oxymoron between bright “summer” and negative connotations of “pall” (funerals, death)

Highlighting positive imagery

Sense of stability - veiled in the past - passage of time obscures the clarity of the past (but still emotionally attached)

Repetition and contrast - emphasises how the memories are positive > negative

“summer pall”

“mountain”

Blue mists, sweet mists of summer pall/ The horizon’s mountain-chain.

Simile - reinforces the memories of the past

Nostalgic - peaceful & painful

Personification of the morning - sorrowful imagery, contrast between sombre present and vivid past (only uses personal pronouns when referencing the past - distancing from present)

Metaphor - visceral, sensory imagery - idyllic

Double entendre “pass” - passing of time or referencing how the scent passes in the air (NATURE is everlasting)

Dream-like tone

Natural scene reminds her of a happier time in life (image tinged with sadness)

“tears”

“dreamy scents”

As thick as morning’s tears;/ And dreamy scents of fragrance pass/ That breathe of other years.