Gujarat Board GSEB Class 10 English Textbook Solutions First Flight Poem 9 Fog Textbook Exercise Important Questions and Answers, Notes Pdf.
Gujarat Board Textbook Solutions Class 10 English First Flight Poem 9 Fog
GSEB Class 10 English Fog Text Book Questions and Answers
Thinking about the Poem
Question 1.
(1)What does Sandburg think the fog is like ?
(2) How does the fog come ?
(3) What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to?
(4) Does the poet actually say that the fog is like a cat ? Find three things that tell us that me fog is like a cat.
Answer:
(1) According to Sandburg, the fog is like a cat.
(2) The fog comes on little cat feet.
(3) In the third line ‘it’ refers to the fog that has covered the city and it seems as if it is looking over the city like a cat.
(4) No, the poet does not actually say that the fog is like a cat. However, he has used 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. 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.
This is reiterated when he says that the fog looks over the city sitting on silent haunches. This also shows the reference to a cat as a cat always sits with its knees bent. Hence, he has compared the fog to a cat without actually saying so.
Question 2.
You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other (See Unit 1).
(1) 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.
| Storm | Tiger | Pounces over the fields, growls |
| Train | ||
| Fire | ||
| School | ||
| Home |
Answer:
Storm – Tiger – Pounces over the fields, growls
Train-Gush of wind-Very fast movement
Fire – Anger – Danger that surrounds both on the basis of their intensities
School – Gateway – Leads to adulthood and a life of responsibility
Home – Nest – Provides hospitable, loving environment
Question 3.
Does this poem have a rhyme scheme ? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.
Answer:
No, this poem does not have a rhyme scheme. It is written in free verse.
GSEB Class 10 English Fog Additional Important Questions and Answers
Read the following stanzas carefully and answer the questions given below them:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Questions:
(1) What is the fog compared with ?
(2) Explain: ‘It sits looking over harbour and city’.
(3) Explain ‘on silent haunches’.
Answer:
(1) The fog is compared with ‘a kitten’, ‘a little cat’.
(2) As a little cat slips in without being noticed and from its place it looks over a wide area, the fog comes quite silently and spreads all over the harbour and the city.
(3) The fog is compared with a little cat, which usually creeps in and, without being noticed, sits somewhere bending its knees temporarily, i.e., ‘on silent haunches’.
Answer the following questions in three to four sentences each:
Question 1.
How does the poet describe the fog as if it were a living being ?
Answer:
The poet says that the fog comes ‘on little cat feet’. He also says that the fog ‘sits looking over harbour and city and then moves on’. To show resemblance between the fog and a cat, thg poet uses such metaphorical language that the fog is described as if it were a living being.
Question 2.
Name the three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat.
Answer:
The three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat are:
(1) the fog is said to come on Tittle cat feet’,
(2) it ‘sits looking’ and
(3) it ‘moves on’.
Question 3.
How is the fog like a cat ? What poetic device is used by the poet here ?
Answer:
The fog comes silently just like a cat does. It ‘sits’ i.e., stays looking over the harbour and the city and then ‘moves on’ like a cat.
Fog Summary in English
Fog Introduction:
Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878-July 22, 1967) was an American poet, writer and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime, Sandburg was widely regarded as ‘a major figure in contemporary literature’, especially for volumes of his collected verse, including Chicago Poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), and Smoke and Steel (1920).
Fog Summary:
The fog rolls in over a harbour and city, looking mighty catlike. At first, it’s quiet and unsuspecting, like a cat. Then, again very much like a cat, it moves on and either disappears or pounces on another harbour/city. And the fog does all of this in a whopping space of only six lines.