Students should read the Fog Summary Class 10 English provided below prepared based on the NCERT Book for Class 10 English. In the summary, the teacher has provided the gist of the lesson. The students will be able to understand the entire chapter easily. Students should go through all Class 10 English Chapter Summary provided by us on our website.
Class 10 English Fog Summary
Fog is a very small poem written by Carl Sandburg. He has described the process of arrival of the fog into a city and the harbour. He has very beautifully compared it to a cat. The poet says that the fog which is generally seen during the winter season is coming towards the city and the harbour just like a cat. This means that it is approaching the city in a very silent manner so that no one can notice its arrival. He has compared its arrival to that of a cat because a cat always enters a place silently. Next he says that the fog has covered the whole of the city and harbour and it appears as if it is sitting by folding its legs and looking around just the way a cat does when it sits on the haunches and looks around. At the end, he describes the departure of the fog which very silently and unpredictably, again, similar to the departure of the cat, vanishes.
Summary in Hindi
फॉग कार्ल सैंडबर्ग द्वारा लिखी गई एक बहुत छोटी कविता है। उन्होंने कोहरे के एक शहर और बंदरगाह में आने की प्रक्रिया का वर्णन किया है। उन्होंने बहुत ही खूबसूरती से इसकी तुलना एक बिल्ली से की है। कवि कहता है कि सर्दी के मौसम में आमतौर पर दिखाई देने वाला कोहरा बिल्ली की तरह शहर और बंदरगाह की ओर आ रहा है। इसका मतलब है कि यह बहुत ही शांत तरीके से शहर की ओर आ रहा है ताकि किसी को इसके आने की भनक न लगे। उन्होंने उसके आगमन की तुलना बिल्ली के आगमन से की है क्योंकि बिल्ली हमेशा चुपचाप एक जगह में प्रवेश करती है। आगे वह कहता है कि कोहरे ने पूरे शहर और बंदरगाह को कवर कर लिया है और ऐसा प्रतीत होता है जैसे वह अपने पैरों को मोड़कर बैठी है और ठीक उसी तरह देख रही है जैसे बिल्ली जब बैठती है और चारों ओर देखती है। अंत में, वह कोहरे के प्रस्थान का वर्णन करता है जो बहुत ही चुपचाप और अप्रत्याशित रूप से, फिर से, बिल्ली के प्रस्थान के समान गायब हो जाता है।
Fog Class 10 English Important Questions
Extract Based Comprehension Questions
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Questions & Answer
Questions. How does the fog come?
Ans. The fog comes on little cat feet.
Questions. What does the fog do in the end?
Ans. In the end, the fog marches on.
Questions. For what does ‘it’ stand in the third line?
Ans. ‘It’, here is the fog.
Questions. Name the poem and the poet.
Ans. The name of the poem is ‘Fog’ and the poet’s name is Carl Sandburg.
Extract Based Comprehension Questions
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Questions & Answer
Questions. Why does the poet use the metaphor of a cat?
Ans. The poet uses the metaphor of the cat because the fog changes into a cat and the cat morphs back into the fog.
Questions. How does the fog enter?
Ans. The fog enters silently like a little cat.
Questions. How does it sit and what does it look?
Ans. The fog sits silently on its haunches overlooking the harbour and the city.
Questions. How does it depart?
Ans. The fog stays for a while and departs silently.
Short Answer Questions
Questions. How does the poet compare fog to a living being?
Ans: 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.
Questions. What image does the poet give to the fog? What are the similarities between that image and fog?
Ans: The poet looks at fog as a living creature and compares it to a cat. The fog moves like a cat on little cat feet and sits on haunches like a cat.
Long Answer Questions
Questions. Difficulties come but they are not to stay forever. They come and go. Comment referring to the poem ‘Fog’.
Ans: Difficulties, when faced by people, tend to leave them hopeless and shattered. It takes a lot of courage to overcome any problem and to 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. Fog is a very small poem written by Carl Sandburg. He has described the process of arrival of the fog into a city and the harbour. He has very beautifully compared it to a cat. 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.
Questions. Nature has many wonders that people take for granted and never pay attention to. How is the poem ‘Fog’ different from this perspective?
Ans: Fog is a very small poem written by Carl Sandburg. He has described the process of arrival of the fog into a city and the harbour. He has very beautifully compared it to a cat. The poet has taken utmost pleasure in nature and natural phenomenon like fog. Fog is so special to the poet that he cared enough not only to write about it, but also thinks of its resemblance with other things in the world. In his close attention to fog, he found fog resembles a cat, in the way it moves and sits on its haunches. The fact that such a resemblance was found by the poet shows how connected he is to various things in nature. This poem serves as a motivation for people, who take nature for granted to find such interesting comparisons and similarities around them.
