CLASS 10
FOG
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Question
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wishes to be human
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experiences great sadness
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understands human feelings
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thinks about what people feel
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: Carl Sandburg in the poem Fog uses personification by stating that It sits looking Fog is given the human ability to sit and look.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fog is visualised as coming on little ‘cat’ feet, it looks over the harbor and city and then moves away, as if its on haunches. He weaves together the sense of movement and makes it animal like to make the fog come across as a living being.
Detailed explanation-3: -He says that the fog comes on its little cat feet, which implies that the fog is like a cat as it comes slowly. He also says that the fog looks over the harbour and the city and then moves on, implying that the fog has covered the city and is sitting and looking at it, thereby again comparing it to a cat.
Detailed explanation-4: -How does the poet compare fog to a living being? Answer: The poet compares the fog to a cat. The silent steps of a cat and the way it sits on its haunches is very similar to the way fog comes and surrounds the city and looks over it.