Short Questions and Answers of 'Mild the Mist upon the Hill'.

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'Mild the Mist upon the Hill'

Emily Jane Bronte

Q.Answer the following questions within twenty five words :

Q.Who wrote 'Mild the Mist upon the Hill'?

Ans: Emily Jane Bronte wrote 'Mild the Mist upon the Hill'.

Q.Name the poem and the poet.

Ans. The name of the poem is 'Mild the Mist upon the Hill' and the poet is Emily Jane Bronte.

1.Where does the poet see herself when she thinks of her childhood?

Ans. When the poet thinks of her childhood, she sees herself under her father's sheltering roof and near the old hall door.

Ans. When she thinks of her childhood, the poet sees herself in the protection of her father's shelter. She finds herself near their old hall door.

2.What did the poet watch on the 'cloudy evening'?

Ans. The poet watched the evening to fall after a day of rain. She also watched blue, sweet mists of summer covering the mountain-chain in the horizon.

Ans. The poet watched the fall of cloudy evening' after a day of rain. She watched then blue and sweet mists hovering around the horizon's mountain chain.

Ans. On the cloudy evening the poet watched blue mists, sweet mists of summer covering the mountain-chain in the horizon.

3.What makes the poet feel nostalgic?

Ans. The mild mist upon the hill makes the poet feel nostalgic.

4. What does the poet recall in this poem? Ans. In this poem the poet recalls the days of her youth when she was a child.

5. What does the mist upon the hill tell the poet?

Ans. The mist upon the hill tells the poet that there will be no rain the next day.

6. Why does the mist upon the hill tell the poet of no rain, the next day?

Ans. According to the poet the day has already spent its store of silent sorrow in the form of rains and so there will be no rain the next day.

7. Where does the poet want to go back?

Ans. The poet wants to go back to the days of her youth when she was a child.

8. What has the day spent?

Ans. The day has spent its store of silent sorrow.

9. Where did the poet live in her childhood days?

Ans. In her childhood days the poet lived beneath the sheltering roof of her father.

10. How does the poet describe the evening and the mists?

Ans. The poet describes the evening as cloudy and the mists as mild, blue and sweet.

11.What does the poet watch?

Ans.The poet watches the fall of cloudy evening after a day of long rain.

12. Which season does the poet mention here?

Ans. The poet mentions here the season of summer.

13. Where does the damp stand how?

Ans.The damp like thick morning's tears stands in the long, green grass.

14. What is compared with "morning's tears"?

Ans. The damp that stands in the long, green grass is compared with morning's tears.

15. How does the poet describe the scents of fragrance?

Ans. The poet describes the scents of fragrance that pass as dreamy. Here the fragrance makes her imaginative as she recalls in her mind the memory of her childhood days.

16. What is meant by 'breathe of other years'?

Ans. The phrase 'breathe of other years' indicates the days of her childhood that she spent in the sheltering roof of her father.

17. How does the poet describe the damp on the grass?

Ans. The poet describes the damp on the grass as thick and compares it with morning's tears.

18. Where was the mist?

Ans. The mist was upon the hill.

19.How is the sorrow of the day described?

Ans:The sorrow of the day is described as silent.

20.How is the hall door mentioned in the poem?

Ans:The hall door mentioned in the poem is old.

21.What is the colour of the mist?

Ans.The colour of the mist is blue.