This post ‘Fog Poem NCERT Solutions Class 10 English’ provides NCERT solutions for Class 10th English First Flight poem Fog by Carl Sandburg. I recommend first read the summary of Fog Poem to understand the Thinking about the Poem Fog questions better.
Fog Poem Thinking about the Poem Question Answers
Q.1.(i) What does Sandburg think the fog is like?
Ans. He thinks the fog is like a cat.
(ii) How does the fog come?
Ans. It comes silently and softly, on little cat feet, without anyone noticing its arrival.
(iii) What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to?
Ans. ‘It’ refers to the fog.
(iv) Does the poet actually say the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us this.
Ans. No, he never says so directly. He uses a metaphor — the fog is the cat.
Three things show it: (a) it comes on little cat feet — silently, like a cat’s soft padding; (b) it sits looking over the harbour and city on silent haunches — the way a cat sits still and watches; (c) it then moves on — quietly slipping away, as a cat does when it pleases.
Q.2.(i) Find metaphors for these words
Ans.
| Word | Metaphor | How they are alike |
|---|---|---|
| Storm | tiger | pounces over the fields, growls |
| Train | snake | crawls and winds along the track, hisses steam, disappears into holes (tunnels) |
| Fire | monster | devours everything in its path, licks with red tongues, roars |
| School | beehive | always humming with activity, everyone busy at his own work |
| Home | nest | a warm, safe shelter where one is fed and protected |
(ii) Write a poem about a storm, comparing it with an animal
Ans. Sample:
The storm comes on heavy elephant feet,
It trumpets over the roofs and the fields,
Tearing the trees with its grey trunk,
And then, tired at last,
Lies down to sleep in the hills.
Q.3. Does this poem have a rhyme scheme?
Ans. No. The poem has neither rhyme nor a regular rhythm. It is written in free verse — just six short lines that catch a single image and let it go, exactly as the fog itself comes and passes.
Glossary in Textbook: on haunches — sitting with knees bent.
