Rohit Yadav
Thinking about the Poem
1. (i) What does Sandburg think the fog is like?
(ii) How does the fog come?
(iii) What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to?
(iv) Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat.
Answer
(i) According to Sandburg, the fog is like a cat.
(ii) The fog comes on little cat feet.
(iii) In the third line ‘it’ refers to the fog that has covered the city and it seems as if it is looking over the city like a cat.
(iv) No, the poet does not actually say that the fog is like a cat. However, he has used cat as a metaphor for describing the fog. He says that the fog comes on its little cat feet, which implies that the fog is like a cat as it comes slowly. He also says that the fog looks over the harbour and the city and then moves on, implying that the fog has covered the city and is sitting and looking at it, thereby again comparing it to a cat. This is reiterated when he says that the fog looks over the city sitting on ‘silent hunches’. This also shows the reference to a cat as a cat always sits with its knees bent. Hence, he has compared the fog to a cat without actually saying so.
2. Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.
Answer
No, this poem does not have a rhyme scheme. It is written in free verse.
MCQs
Question 1.
What is the name of the poet?
(a) Sylvia Plath
(b) Carl Sandburg
(c) Robert Frost
(d) Robert Burns
Answer
(b) Carl Sandburg
Question 2.
What does the fog look over?
(a) Over houses
(b) Over the harbour and the city.
(c) Over offices.
(d) None of the Above.
Answer
(b) Over the harbour and the city.
Question 3.
How does the fog come?
(a) Slowly and silently.
(b) Faster and silently.
(c) Faster and making noise.
(d) None of the Above.
Answer
(a) Slowly and silently.
Question 4.
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem ‘Fog’?
(a) aabbccdd
(b) abcd
(c) aabc aabc
(d) no rhyme scheme
Answer
(d) no rhyme scheme
Question 5.
What does the fog do while it looks over the city and the harbour?
(a) sits
(b) moves
(c) stands
(d) dances
Answer
(a) sits
Question 6.
What has been personified in the poem?
(a) fog
(b) city
(c) cat
(d) harbour
Answer
(a) fog
Question 7.
How does the fog arrive and depart?
(a) by announcing its arrival
(b) silently
(c) loudly
(d) both1 and 3
Answer
(b) silently
Question 8.
What has the poet compared the fog with?
(a) dog
(b) cat
(c) woman
(d) none of the above
Answer
(b) cat
Question 9.
After sitting, the fog ___
(a) Disappears
(b) sits there only
(c) moves on
(d) gets dense
Answer
(c) moves on
Question 10.
The feet of the fog are like __ feet.
(a) cat
(b) lion
(c) tiger
(d) dog
Answer
(a) cat
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