Fog Extra Questions and Answers
Very Short Answer Questions
1. According to the poet, what is the fog like?
Answer: According to the poet, the fog is like a cat.
2. How does the fog come?
Answer: The fog comes slowly and silently.
3. What is the fog compared to?
Answer: The fog is compared to a cat.
4. What does the fog look over ?
Answer: The fog looks over the harbour and the city.
5. How does the poet make the fog like a living creature?
Answer: The poet makes the fog like a living creature by comparing
it to a cat.
6. How does the fog move on?
Answer: The fog moves on slowly.
7. How does the poet describes the fog’s movements?
Answer: The poet describes the fog as a cat. Like a cat, the fog
comes silently and slowly. It is sitting on its haunches. And then it
moves on.
Short Answer Type Questions
1. The poet actually says that the fog is like a cat”, With
reference to the poem, ‘Fog’ explain this statement.
Or
Think of any other animal that can best replace the cat in
the poem, ‘Fog’. Write a few lines that would tell us about
the resemblance of Fog with that animal.
Answer: The fog is compared to a cat. He says a cat does not make
a sound when it walks so also is the fog. But its presence is
apparent. Its ‘Silence’ is very much like that of a cat moving on its
little feet. The way the fog sits is very much like a cat sitting on its
haunches, looking here and there.
2. How does the poet make the fog like a living creature?
Answer: The poet describes the fog as a cat. He does so through a
metaphor. The fog is the cat itself. As a cat jumps and lights on its
soft silently, the fog also comes down noiselessly. Then it moves on
like a cat.
3. How is the fog like a cat? What three things suggest it?
Answer: Three things suggest that the fog is like a cat. Like a cat,
the fog comes silently. The fog is looking over the harbour and the
city like a cat does so sitting on its haunches. Thirdly, it moves as
the cat moves.
4. How does the poet employ the double imagery of the fog
and the cat?
Answer: The poetic device of metaphor is very effectively used in
the poem. The fog is converted into a cat and the cat is morphed
back into the fog. The silent arrival of the fog is like a little cat. The
fog stays there sitting like the cat on its haunches.
5. Describe the similarities that have been mentioned in the
poem between the fog and a cat.
Answer: It is a dual image that changes and merges again in the
original. The fog changes into a cat and the cat changes into the
fog. Both of them come silently unseen and suddenly. Both engulf
everything underneath them. The fog engulfs everything, the
harbour and the city in its fold. The fog sits silently as a cat sits on
its haunches. Then it disappears and moves ahead.
6. Which aspect of nature Carl Sand-burg presents in the
poem ‘Fog’?
Answer: The poet presents nature in its raw and natural state. The
fog comes as if from nowhere. It comes suddenly and silently like a
little cat. The fog’s power is overwhelming. It engulfs everything, the
city and the harbour in its all-embracing fold. Then following the law
of change, it disappears, no one knows where.
7. Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Then
how do we know that the fog is like a cat?
Answer: The poet compares fog to a cat. 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.
8. What three things tell us that the fog is like a cat?
Answer: (i) The fog comes slowly and silently like a cat.
(ii) The cat sits on its haunches for some time looking around and
then moves away as it came.
(iii) Similarly, the fog spreads over the harbour and city for some
time. Finally, it moves away like a cat.
9. The fog comes on like cat feet. How does the poet
compare the fog with a cat? What poetic device is used
here?
Answer: The cat comes silently and slowly. In the same way, the
fog also comes slowly and silently. The poetic device used here is
personification. The fog has been personified.
Long Answer Type Questions
1. What metaphor has the poet used in the poem ‘Fog’? Do
you think it is appropriate?
Answer: In the poem Tog’, Carl Sandburg has metaphorically
compared the fog to a cat. The first strange thing about the
metaphor is the comparison of a phenomenon with a living animal.
Perhaps the poet wants to emphasize the silent nature and
mysterious ways of the fog, so he has compared the fog to a cat. A
cat does not make a sound when it walks. So also is the fog, but its
presence is apparent. Its “silence” is very much like that of a cat
moving on its little feet.
Then the fog stays in its place looking over the harbour and city
which creates a hazy atmosphere all around. The way it sits is very
much like a cat sitting on its haunches, looking here and there
before it makes a move. This is as if the fog remains a silent
spectator of the happenings in the city. Whatever the purpose may
be, both the fog as well as a cat make their impression and make
their presence felt. The comparison of the fog to a cat seems very
appropriate because, reading the poem, one feels that truly, the fog
approaches stealthily, just like a cat.
2. How does Carl Sandburg describe the arrival, stay and
departure of fog through the image of a metaphorical cat?
Answer: The poet employs a double image. The fog is converted
into a cat and the cat morphs back into the fog. The arrival of the
fog is silent and sudden. It comes as if from nowhere. Its arrival is
like a small cat. It sits and stays for a while. It engulfs everything in
its all-embracing fold. It spreads its fold everywhere from the
harbour to the city. It sits silently as a cat sits on its haunches. The
fog stays but not for long. A cat never stays at one place for a long
time. So, the fog moves ahead no one knows where. Carl Sandburg
describes the raw aspect of nature, the all-embracing and prevailing
fog. Its silent power is felt everywhere from the harbour to the city.
Extract Based Questions
Read the following extract carefully 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.
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?
Answer:
a. The fog comes on little cat feet.
b. It looks over the harbour and the city, like a cat sitting on its
haunches.
c. In the end, the fog moves on.
d. Here, ‘it’ is the little cat as well as the fog.
Self- Assessment Test
Short Answer Questions
1. How is the fog full of opposite forces?
2. Describe the movement of fog.
3. How is fog similar to a cat?
4. How does the fog come?
5. What is used as a metaphor for fog? Why?
Long Answer Questions
1. Think of any other animal that can best replace the cat in the
poem, ‘Fog’. Write a few
lines that would tell us about the resemblance of fog with that
animal.
2. What moral does the poet want to give us through this poem?
