CBSE Class 10 English Fog Worksheet

Fog – (Poem)

GIST
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 harbour. He has very beautifully compared it to a cat. The poet says that the fog which is generally seen during the winter season is coming towards the city and the harbour just like a cat. This means that it is approaching the city in a very silent manner so that no one can notice its arrival. He has compared its arrival to that of a cat because a cat always enters a place silently. Next he says that the fog has covered the whole of the city and harbour and it appears as if it is sitting by folding its legs and looking around just the way a cat does when it sits on the haunches and looks around. At the end, he describes the departure of the fog which very silently and unpredictably, again, similar to the departure of the cat, vanishes.

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.

1. The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Question.For what does ‘it’ stand in the third line?
Answer.‘It’, here is the fog.

Question.How does the fog come?
Answer. The fog comes on little cat feet.

Question.Name the poem and the poet.
Answer.The name of the poem is ‘Fog’ and the poet’s name is Carl Sandburg.

Question.What does the fog do in the end?
Answer.In the end, the fog marches on.

2. The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Question.How does the fog enter?
Answer.The fog enters silently like a little cat.

Question. Why does the poet use the metaphor of a cat?
Answer.The poet uses the metaphor of the cat because the fog changes into a cat and the cat morphs back into the fog.

Question.How does it depart?
Answer.The fog stays for a while and departs silently.

Question.How does it sit and what does it look?
Answer. The fog sits silently on its haunches overlooking the harbour and the city. 

Short Answer Questions :

Question.What image does the poet give to the fog? What are the similarities between that image and fog?
Answer. 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.

Question.How does the poet compare fog to a living being?
Answer. The poet compares the fog to a cat. The silent steps of a cat and the way it sits on its haunches is very similar to the way fog comes and surrounds the city and looks over it.

Long Answer Questions: 

Question.Nature has many wonders that people take for granted and never pay attention to. How is the
poem ‘Fog’ different from this perspective?
Answer. 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 harbour. 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 sits 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.

Question.Difficulties come but they are not to stay forever. They come and go. Comment referring to the poem ‘Fog’.
Answer.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. 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 harbour. He has very beautifully compared it to a cat. One need not be hopeless and lose courage when problems come, one should rather think of it as fog, meaning that it has not come to stay but will always leave, like fog.

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B) )Given below is a short biography and facts about the life of Srinivasa Ramanujam, the famous Indian mathematician. Write a Biographical sketch Of Srinivasa Ramanujam in 80 words.

Name: Srinivasa Ramanujam
Achievement: Ramanujam a mathematician par excellence, the greatest mathematician of the 20th Century.Significant contribution to the analytical theory of numbers
Education: took admission in Government College in Kumbakona,he neglected his studies in other subjects, dropped out of college Special contribution :gave an asymptotic value for p(n)

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D)Modern lifestyle is sedentary and is giving rise to increasing cases of obesity amongst the youth.What aggravates the situation further is the careless attitude of the youth towards physical fitness .Write an article on “Staying Fit-The Need Of the hour”.

E)You are concerned about the increased incidence of accidents involving the school children. The main reason is the reckless driving habits of people. You decide to write a letter to the editor discussing this problem .Suggest some measures to combat the problem.

F)On the occasion of World Poverty Day, the slogan –“Garibi Hatao, Khushali Lao- Remove Poverty and Bring Prosperity” was given. Realizing that the need of the hour is to change the slogan into action and to create awareness about it, you decide to write an e-mail to the editor of a national daily on ‘Poverty- Its causes and the ways of eradicating it’