NCERT Solutions Class 10 English Chapter 6 Fog Poem

3. 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.

Short Answer Type Question

1. Write the summary of the poem ‘Fog’ by Carl Sandburg.
Answer
The poet in this poem describes the process of the arrival of fog over city. He compares the fog to a cat. The fog silently, just like a cat, appears gradually without anyone noticing. It stays for sometime and then disappears as silently as it came.
It may have a deeper meaning, suggesting that like the fog, the problems and difficulties in life are also temporary. Fog, with its arrival, brings upon difficulties and its own challenges which disappear when the fog is gone. Similarly, the difficulties in life are also temporary. They disappear with passage of time. Nothing is permanent.

2. Write the poetic device used in the poem fog by Carl Sandburg?
Answer
1. Metaphor – cat feet
2. Personification – fog sitting and looking
3. consonance – little cat feet
4. Transferred epithet -silent haunches.(quality of cat made on haunches)
5. Enjambment

3. Describe the similarities that have been mentioned in the poem between the fog and a cat.
Answer
The fog has been compare to a cat. Just like a cat does, fog also is also very quiet. Just like the arrival of a cat cannot be heard, no one notices the arrival of fog as well. It stays for sometime and then disappears as quietly as it came. It sits down on its haunches, symbolising the stagnancy and heaviness associated with fog. Fog moves steadily in a mysterious fashion, just like cats.

4. What aspect of nature does Carl Sandburg present in the poem Fog?
Answer
Just like nature, fog is unpredictable, mysterious and a higher being of sorts. Fog looked down on the people of the city and harbour, divine.