First Flight Poem ch09 Fog - CBSE Test Papers

CBSE Test Paper 01
Fog

  1. How does the poet compare fog to a living being?
  2. Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat? Then how do we know that the fog is like a cat?
  3. According to the poet in what respect is the fog similar to a cat? Do you think the comparison made is appropriate?
  4. Difficulties come but they do not stay forever. They come and go. Comment referring to the poem Fog.
  5. Read the lines given below and answer the questions that follow:
    The fog comes
    on little cat feet
    It sits looking
    over harbour and city
    on silent haunches
    and then moves on.
    1. The 'it' in these lines is _____.
    2. "It" has been compared to a _____.
    3. The figure of speech used in these lines is _____.
    4. Name the poem and the poet.
  6. Read the stanza given below and answer the following questions:
    The fog comes
    on little cat feet
    It sits looking
    over harbour and city
    on silent haunches
    and then moves on.
    1. Who composed these lines?
    2. What is fog compared to?
    3. How does the fog come?
    4. What does 'on haunches' mean?
CBSE Test Paper 01
Fog

Solution
  1. The poet compares the fog to a cat. The way fog comes and surrounds the city and looks over it is very similar to the silent steps of a cat and the way it sits on its haunches.
  2. No, the poet does not say that the fog is like a cat. However, he has used the cat as a metaphor for describing the fog. He says that the fog comes on its little cat feet which implies that the fog is like a cat as it comes slowly. As 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.
  3. According to the poet, the approach of the fog is silent and noiseless, stealthily advancing on its silent, 'paws'. From a distance, it seems like a cat on its haunches with its knees bent, the fog too sits silently for a while and then slowly moves on, cautiously analysing its surroundings before it engulfs the entire city and the harbour in its folds. The comparison of the fog to a cat seems very appropriate because while reading the poem, one feels that truly the fog approaches stealthily just like a cat.
  4. Difficulties, when faced by people, tend to leave them hopeless and shattered. It takes a lot of courage to overcome any problem and solve it. If we take a clue from the poem and compare difficulties to fog, we find that just like fog, difficulties also come and go. Problems are also temporary and they will go away like fog as they cannot stay or trouble anyone permanently. One need not be hopeless and lose courage when problems come; one should rather think of it as fog, meaning that it has not come to stay but will always leave, like fog.
    1. the fog.
    2. cat.
    3. personification.
    4. The poem is 'Fog' and is composed by Carl Sandburg.
    1. Carl Sandburg composed these lines.
    2. Fog is compared to a cat.
    3. The fog comes stealthily.
    4. It means 'sitting with knees bent'.