When the Lady of the Lake gave Excalibur to Arthur in "The coming of Arthur," a mist of incense curled about her and her face. She was hidden and could not be seen. The mist signifies that the Lady of the Lake is to precious to be seen. The sword that was given to Arthur symbolizes something new and good. Arthur uses this sword to help King Leodogran fight a battle. They won this battlw and in return Arthur wanted to marry King Leodogran's daughter, Givinevere. King Leodogran didn't know if Arthur was of noble birth, and couldn't decide if he should allow the marriage. Arthur's birth was not truely known and King Leodogran had to find someway of knowing the truth. Later that night King Leodogran had a dream. "Stream'd to the peak, and mingled with the haze/ And made it thicker; while the phantom king/ Sent out at times a

The story "Givenivere" mainly has mist that signifies something bad. Mist can also symbolize the coming of something unfavorable. "Blurr'd by the creeping mist, for all abroad,/ Beneath a moon unseen albeit at full,/ The white mist, like a face-cloth to the face,/ Clung to the dead earth, and the land was still./ For hither had she fled, her cause of flight" (Tennyson 269). Here the mist is coming over the land so it is not visible. The mist gives a feeling that everything is dead. Mist can stand for death. When the king found Givenivere in her hiding place he went to visit her one last time. As he left, this was how the mist was described "The moony vapour rolling round the King,/ Who seem'd the phantom of a Giant in it,/ Enwound him fold by fold, and made him gray/ And grayer, till himself became as mist/ Before her, moving ghostlike to his doom."(Tennyson 284). This shows how mist is bad because as king Arthur leaves, the dark mist surrounds him leading to his death. You no longer see him and are left with an eerie presence. There is no movement, no noise. It gives a sense of creepiness

In each of these stories mist stood for something different. The mist brought something new, good, bad, foreshadowed death, and gave feelings. Without the mist the story wouldn't have been given the same feeling.

in the "Passing of Arthur" a mist comes over

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