Summary of Fog Class 10 First Flight

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The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
by CARL SANDBURG

The poet sees the fog as a cat. It comes on its tiny silent feet as a cat does when it is stalking. Like a cat, it moves in imperceptibly and in complete silence. So, the poem ‘Fog’ becomes an extended metaphor.

The fog comes silently and engulfs the whole landscape in its fold. The poem presents the dual imagery of fog and cat. The fog turns into a cat. And the cat turns back into the fog. The fog moves in at a slow pace and then stops and gradually covers the whole landscape or seascape and the harbour. The fog like a cat keeps on lying for hours, It keeps on overlooking the harbour and the city below. The atmosphere all around is filled with silence and mystery. And then, like a stalking cat, it moves on. It disappears silently unnoticed.

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• The poet gives a powerful image of fog through a metaphorical cat.
• The fog turns into a cat and the cat morphs back into the fog.
• The fog comes silently and spreads all around.
• It comes silently as a cat comes stalking.
• It engulfs everything and looks over the harbour and the city.
• It continues sitting silently on its haunches and then moves on.

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कविता में कवि कार्ल सैंडबर्ग ने प्रकृति और उसके शोर -रहित कार्य का चितरड़ किया है| अपनी बात को सिद्ध करने के लिए कवि कोहरे और एक बिल्ली की तुलना प्रश्तुत करता है| कवि कहता है कि कोहरा एक बिल्ली की भांति चुपके से और धीरे से आता है| जब ये आता है तो ये हमे तंग नहीं करता है ये एक बिल्ली की भांति चुपचाप बैठ जाता है| यह बंदर गाहा और शहर के ऊपर चुपचाप गिरता रहता है तब यह हवा के साथ एकदम से आगे बढ़ जाता है|

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In the poem FOG, Sandburg has put in hardly 25 words, but yet the poem does have a deeper and strong meaning. The first two lines of the poem just simply describe how a fog comes in. usually fogs are seen in cold areas or in mountains or forests. However, in this poem the poet describes about fog in cities and a harbor. He gives a wonderful comparison between the fog and a kitten. When a kitten comes around us, most of the time it just comes so slowly that you hardly notice, till you see it or feel it. The same is the case with the fog. An arrival of fogs cannot be predicted. It just comes in and engulfs the entire place that it is and stays on for some time, creating trouble for anyone in between it, but still stays as though it is not aware of the happenings around it.

The next four lines of the poem states that it just comes, sit at the harbor and looks at the city and is at the silent haunches and then finally moves on. Here the poet has described what happens once the fog has arrived.

Now, Fogs as such do not cause any harm, as it is silent and the onset is slow. However, when the fog is around, especially in the city, many accidents may occur for the only reason that people cannot see anything in-between them. There are occasions, when people fall into telephone holes, cars may hit onto each other. People may walk up the wrong place, at the harbor, boats may drive up on the wrong bridges, or they may drive up on another boat and many such instances. Therefore, a fog just comes in like a small and silent kitten, and just sits and watches the beauty, but when it is over a city, the incidents caused by the fog are many.

And the last line states that , just a small child, who gets bored playing the same game over and over again or just by seeing the same sight again and again, and moves on to the next, similarly, the fog also does not stay in one place for a long time. After some time, after the pranks are over, the fog also moves on. This is a very small poem describing the nature’s act in a beautiful manner.