F        O      G

1) Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat?  Then   how do we know that the fog is like a cat?

Ans: The poet compares fog to a cat.  A cat makes it’s entry and there after moves out without any noise. What so ever; the fog too comes and spreads slowly and silently over harbour and city.

2)What  are the three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat ?

Ans:  (i) The  fog comes slowly and silently just like cat does.

(ii) the cat  sits on its haunches for some time looking here and there before moving away silently.

(ii)  similarly the fog spreads over  the harbour and city for sometime before moving out finally just like chat of a cat.

3)What  is very much specific about the fog?

Ans. The fog is a natural phenomenon. It falls during the winter season on the cold and chilly weather. It comes suddenly and moves away very silently. It does not spare anyone- the city, the tree or the harbour.

4)What does the poet compare the fog with?

Ans. The poet compares the fog with a cat. Like cat it arrives suddenly. It leaps over its prey giving it no chance of safety. And then it moves away silently.

5)What  is the central theme of the poem ‘Fog’?

Ans. A fog comes silently and moves away silently. We should learn a lesson from it. We should indulge in our duty without being loud or any disturbance for others.

6) Describe how the fog comes and what forms it assumes.

Ans: The weather becomes suitable for the fog. The fog comes silently and slowly. It comes on the little feet of a cat. She sits on it’s haunches. She looks over the harbor and the city. Then she moves on.

7) How does the poet make the fog like a living being?

Ans: the poet makes the fog like a cat who is a living being. He does so through a metaphor. The  fog is the cat itself. After falling on the cat it moves as the cat moves. The cat becomes the fog and the  fog the cat.

8) who composed the ‘FOG’ ?

Ans: Carl Sandburg composed the poem ‘FOG’.

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                                                        F      O   G”                   by Carl Sandburg

    Sept. 23, 2017/ Sazzad Sodial.

Very Short Type Questions : Mark : 1

1.  Choose the correct alternative:

(a) The poem “Fog” was written by

(i) Robert Frost

(ii) Carl Sandburg

Ans:    (ii) Carl Sandburg.

(b) The fog is compared to

(i) cat

(ii) dog

Ans:    (i) cat

1.       Who wrote the poem, “Fog”?

Ans:    Carl Sandburg wrote the poem, “Fog”.

2.       How does the fog come?

Ans:    The fog comes silently as if on little cat feet.

3.       What does the poet think the fog is like?

Ans:    The poet thinks the fog is like a cat.

4.       Does the poet actually say the fog is like a cat?

 Ans:    No. The poet actually uses metaphor to show resemblance between the coming of a                                  cat and the fog.

Short Type Questions : Marks : 2/3

1. How does the poet describe the fog as if it were a living being?

    Ans: The poet says that the fog comes ‘on little cat feet’. He also says that the fog ‘sits looking over harbour and city and then moves on’. To show resemblance between the fog and a cat, the poet uses such metaphorical language that the fog is described as if it were a living being.

2. Name the three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat.

  Ans: The three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat are – (i) the fog is said to come on ‘little cat feet’, (ii) it ‘sits looking’, and (iii) It ‘moves on’.

3. How is the fog like a cat? What poetic device is used by the poet here?

  Ans: The fog comes silently just like a cat does. It ‘sits’ i.e. stays looking over the harbour  and the city and then ‘moves on’ like a cat.

The poetic device used by the poet here is ‘metaphor’.