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The poem 'Fog' by Carl Sandburg compares fog to a cat, emphasizing its silent and stealthy movement as it envelops the city and harbour. It presents nature in its raw state, illustrating the fog's overwhelming presence and its ability to disappear just as suddenly as it arrives. The poem's short length enhances its effectiveness, capturing the transient beauty of fog with compact language and vivid imagery.

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Fog

The poem 'Fog' by Carl Sandburg compares fog to a cat, emphasizing its silent and stealthy movement as it envelops the city and harbour. It presents nature in its raw state, illustrating the fog's overwhelming presence and its ability to disappear just as suddenly as it arrives. The poem's short length enhances its effectiveness, capturing the transient beauty of fog with compact language and vivid imagery.

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CLASS X – ENGLISH

1. The poet actually says that the fog is like a cat”, With reference to the
poem, ‘Fog’ explain this statement.

Answer: The fog is compared to a cat. The poet says a cat does not make a
sound when it walks so also is the fog. But its presence is apparent. Its ‘Silence’
is very much like that of a cat moving on its little feet. The way the fog sits is
very much like a cat sitting on its haunches, looking here and there.
2. Which aspect of nature Carl Sand-burg presents in the poem ‘Fog’?
Answer: The poet presents nature in its raw and natural state. The fog
comes as if from nowhere. It comes suddenly and silently like a little cat.
The fog’s power is overwhelming. It engulfs everything, the city and the
harbour in its all-embracing fold. Then following the law of change, it
disappears.
3. Along with the silence, which two other characteristics of fog does the
poem present?
Answer. Along with its silence, the poem highlights the stealthy movement of
the fog and its ability to surround a harbour and city slowly and gradually. It
comes noiselessly as if walking on soft padded feet just like a cat. Secondly, it
spreads all over the harbour and the city at the same time, implying that it
engulfs large areas.
4. How does the poet emphasise the silence of the city and the harbour?
Answer. Although the poem ‘Fog’ has a city and harbour as its perspective,
no activities and no sounds are a part of the scene. The city and the town
are portrayed to be shrouded in fog which hovers over the place for some
time and then disappears. The silence of the city is not disturbed by the fog
as it arrives, lingers on, and then retreats quietly and stealthily. The poem is
like a still life painting of the fog-covered city and harbour.
5. The short length of the poem ‘Fog’ makes it all the more effective.
Comment.
Ans. The length of the poem, ‘Fog’, makes it more interesting. Within a few
words the poet has presents the appearance and disappearance of huge
fog. Just like the short length of the poem, the fog also stays for a very
short duration. This natural phenomenon has been portrayed without any
details. And still the poem is picturesque. The economy of language makes
the meaning compact and imagery a stunning graphic.

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