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Fog

By– Carl Sandburg

COMPREHENSION OF STANZA

Read the following stanza and answer the questions that follow :

STANZA 1

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbour and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Questions :

(a) How does the fog come?

(b) Where does the fog look and how?

(c) What does the fog do in the end?

(d) For what does ‘it’ stand in the third line?

(e) Name the poem and the poet.

Answers :

(a) The fog comes on little cat feet.

(b) It looks over the port and the city. It is like a cat sitting on its haunches.

(d) ‘It’, here, is the little cat as well as the fog.

(e) The name of the poem is ‘Fog’ and the poet’s name is Carl Sandburg.

Stanza-2: (Page 115)

The fog comes on little cat feet.

It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Word-Meaning: Harbour—the place where ships load and unload, Haunches—hips,

Paraphrase

The fog enters silently like a small cat. The fog seems to change into a cat and the cat again morphs into the fog. Then, it sits there for a while overlooking and engulfing the harbour and the city lying below. It continues sitting silently there for a while as a cat on its haunches and then moves ahead.

Questions:

(a) Why does the poet use the metaphor of a cat?

(b) How does the fog enter?

(c) How does it sit and what does it look?

(d) How does it depart?

Answers:

(a) The poet uses the metaphor of the cat because the fog changes into a cat and the cat morphs back into the fog.

(b) The fog enters silently like a little cat.

(d) The fog stays for a while and departs silently.