NCERT Class 10 English Chapter 9 Fog
NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 9 Fog
Thinking About the Poem
(Page 115)
Question 1.
1. What does Sandburg think the fog is like?
2. How does the fog come?
3. What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to? CBSE 2012
4. 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. say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat.
Answer:
1. Sandburg thinks that the fog is like a cat.
2. The fog comes silently like a cat on its small feet.
3. ‘It’ refers to fog.
4. The poet does not actually say that the fog is like a cat, but he uses the metaphor of cat for comparison.
Three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat are:
- It comes silently like a cat on its small feet.
- It looks over like a cat.
- It sits on its haunches like a cat.
Question 2.
How does the fog come?
Answer:
The fog comes quietly on the cat’s feet.
Question 3.
What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to?
Answer:
‘It’ in the third line refers to ‘fog’.
Question 4.
Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.
Answer:
This poem does not have a rhyme scheme as the sentences do not end with like sounds. There is no pattern of similarity in the sounds of the ending words of any of the sentences, therefore the poem is written in free verse.
Extra Questions and Answers
Reference-to-Context Questions
Read the stanza given below and answer the questions that follow:
Question 1.
The fog comes on little cat feet.
(a) The poet thinks that the fog is like a
Answer:
cat
(b) ‘Cat’s feet’ refers to the softness of
Answer:
movement
(c) Fog is a symbol of
Answer:
sorrow.
(d) Give the meaning of the phrase ‘on little cat feet’ from the extract.
Answer:
silently/quickly
Question 2.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
(a) The fog spreads over the and city on silent haunches like a cat.
Answer:
harbour
(b) The fog ………. after some time just as a cat does.
Answer:
disappears
(c) The poetic device in the extract is personification.
Answer:
True
(d) Find the same meaning of ‘port’ in the extract.
Answer:
harbour
Long Answer Question
Question 1.
‘Nothing lasts forever’. How far does the poem ‘Fog’ depict this idiom?
Answer:
The fog in the poem makes a silent, but all-pervasive entry on the scene. It gives no indication of its temporary nature, at this stage. Its silent arrival, as if on cat feet, does not indicate its onward spread. It seems to be surrounding the entire countryside like a child sitting on its haunches, indicating a mysterious aura without exposing its next move.
The reader anticipates some dramatic outcome of this all-pervasive presence from the harbour, right down to the city. In the final outcome, the fog makes a silent exit, as secretively as its arrival. The entire drama seems to suggest that even in the most engulfing of circumstances, is but temporary in nature.