NCERT Solution for Class 10 English : First Flight – Poem 8 Fog

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Thinking about the Poem

Question.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) Sandburg thinks the fog is like a cat that comes silently so that no one can sense it arrival.
(ii) As per the poet, the fog comes very silently like a cat.
(iii) ‘It’ refers to the fog.
(iv) The three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat are as follows:

(a) The fog comes on its little cat feet: This means that the fog enters silently just like cat.
(b) It sits looking over harbour and city: The fog is compared to cat as cats also like to sit and look here and there and fog is also looking while it sits over the city.
(c) On silent haunches and then moves on: The fog sits on her bended legs just like cat and then moves away very quickly and silently, just like a cat.

Question.2. You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other (See Unit 1).
(i) Find metaphors for the following words and complete the table below.
Also try to say how they are alike. The first is done for you.

Answer.

(i) Think about a storm. Try to visualise the force of the storm, hear the sound of the storm, feel the power of the storm and the sudden calm that happens afterwards. Write a poem about the storm comparing it with an animal.
Answer. Do it yourself.

Question.3. Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have and obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.
Answer. There is no rhyme scheme in the poem. It has neither internal nor external rhyme scheme. Hence, we can say that it is in free verse.