Answer: The tone is <u><em>merry and full of promise</em></u>. It continues in the second stanza where the hills personified untie their bonnets. As the sun rises and the morning air starts to warm, the mist, which is the metaphorical bonnet, over the hills evaporates. Then the bobolinks begin to sing.
More about her poems: Sometimes with humor, sometimes with pathos, Dickinson writes about her subjects. Remembering that she had a strong wit often helps to discern the tone behind her words. Emily Dickinson had many major themes in her writing. These themes include: religion, death, home and family, nature and love. Religion: Emily Dickinson was a religious person; religion is brought up many times in her poems.
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