NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English First Flight Chapter 9 Fog Questions and Answers

Thinking About the Poem

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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. say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat.

Ans:  (i) Sandburg thinks that the fog is like a cat.

(ii) Silently, the fog approaches with the grace of a cat on its delicate paws.

(iii) ‘It’ refers to fog.

(iv) 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 sits on its haunches like a cat.
• It looks over like a cat.

2. You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other.

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.

Ans: 

ii. 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.

Ans: Do it yourself.

3. Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.

Ans: The absence of a consistent rhyme scheme in this poem is evident as none of the sentences conclude with similar sounds. The ending words of each sentence do not follow a pattern of similarity, indicating that the poem is composed in free verse.