Class X – Fog (Important Questions)

Ans. The poet compares fog to a cat. The fog comes suddenly and stealthily just like the little feet of a cat. It looks over harbor and city on its haunches, just as a cat looks over sitting with knees bent (haunches). And then like a cat the fog moves on soon, because a cat does not stay in one place for long.

Ans. The poet looks at fog as a living creature and compares it to a cat. The fog moves like a cat on little cat feet and sits on haunches like a cat. A cat is generally a very cautious creature and therefore it cannot sit and relax in a place. Similarly, fog is also temporary visitor to earth and that shows very clearly in its movements.

Ans. When people face difficulties in their lives, at the end, these problems tend to leave them hopeless and shattered. It takes a lot of courage for anyone to overcome their problems and to even try to solve it. But if we take a lesson from this poem ‘Fog’ and compare our difficulties also come and go. They are not a permanent resident in our lives and hence, don’t stay forever.

There is no need for us to become hopeless and lose courage when are faced with problems. We should rather try to think of those difficulties or problems as a fog, meaning that think of it as something that has not come to stay for long, but something will always leave, like every other bad period of our lives.

Ans. the poet Carl Sandburg in his poem ‘Fog’ describes fog as a cat. Fog is treated as a living creature. Fog comes quietly and stealthily like a cat. Fog sits looking over the harbor like a cat does. Then it moves to settle somewhere else. Just as cat doesn’t settle at one place and in the same way fog keeps on moving and finally vanishes.

Ans. fog is a very small poem written by Carl Sandburg. He has described the process of arrival of the fog into a city and the harbor. He has very beautifully compared it to a cat. The poet has taken utmost pleasure in nature and natural phenomenon like fog. Fog is so special to the poet that he cared enough not only to write about it, but also thinks of its resemblance with other things in the world. In his close attention to fog, he found fog resembles a cat, in the way it moves and sites on its haunches. The fact that such a resemblance was found by the poet shows how connected he is to various things in nature. This poem serves as a motivation for people, who take nature for granted to find such interesting comparisons and similarities around them.

Ans. It is a dual image that changes and merges again in the original. The fog changes into a cat and the cat changes into the fog. Both of them come silently unseen and suddenly. Both engulf everything underneath them. The fog engulfs everything, the harbor and the city in its fold. The fog sits silently as a cat sits on its haunches. Then it disappears and moves ahead.

Ans. The fog comes silently like a cat and it appears suddenly. No one can make out its arrival as it moves silently. The poetic device used here is personification. The fog has been personified here. It is an abstract idea describing the physical force of the fog, an inanimate object to that of a cat, a living being.

Ans. The three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat are as follows:

i. The fog comes on its little cat feet. This means that the fog enters silently just like cat.

ii. It sits looking over harbor and city. The fog is compared to cat as cats also like to sit and look here and there and fog is also looking while it sits over the city.

iii. On silent haunches and then moves on: The fog sits on her bended legs just like cat and then moves away very quickly and silently, just like a cat.

Ans. Difficulties, when faced by people, tend to leave them hopeless and shattered. It takes a lot of courage to overcome any problem and to solve it. If we take a clue from the poem and compare difficulties to fog, we find that just like fog, difficulties also come and go.