Fog Class 10 Worksheet English Chapter 1

Q.1. How does the poet compare fog to a living being?

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.

Q.2. What image does the poet give to the fog? What are the similarities between that image and fog?

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.

Q.3. Which line states that the poet compares fog to a cat?

“The fog comes on little cat feet.” This is the line where we get to know that the poet compares fog to a cat.

Q.4. Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Then how do we know that the fog is like a cat?

No, the poet does not say that the fog is like a cat. However, he has used the 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. As a cat comes without making any noise and goes away. In the same way, the fog comes and spreads slowly and silently over harbour and city.

Q.5 Who silently looks over harbor and city?

The fog silently looks over the harbor and the city.

Q.6. Difficulties come but they are not to stay forever. They come and go. Comment referring to the poem ‘Fog’.

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.

Q.7. Does the fog move on as the cat does?

Yes, the fog moves on just like the cat does.

Q.8. According to the poet in what respect is the fog similar to a cat? Do you think the comparison made is appropriate?

According to the poet, the approach of the fog is silent and noiseless, stealthily advancing on its silent, 'paws'. From a distance, it seems like a cat on its haunches with its knees bent, the fog too sits silently for a while and then slowly moves on, cautiously analysing its surroundings before it engulfs the entire city and the harbour in its folds. The comparison of the fog to a cat seems very appropriate because while reading the poem, one feels that truly the fog approaches stealthily just like a cat.

Q.9. Difficulties come but they do not stay forever. They come and go. Comment referring to the poem Fog.

Difficulties, when faced by people, tend to leave them hopeless and shattered. It takes a lot of courage to overcome any problem and 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. Problems are also temporary and they will go away like fog as they cannot stay or trouble anyone permanently. 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.

Q.10. Nature has many wonders that people take for granted and never pay attention to. How is the poem ‘Fog’ different from this perspective?

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.