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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? CBSE 2012
4. Does the poet
actually say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that tell us that
the fog is like a cat. say that the fog is like a cat? Find three things that
tell us that the fog is like a cat.
Answer:
1. Sandburg thinks that the fog
is like a cat.
2. The fog comes silently
like a cat on its small feet.
3. ‘It’
refers to fog.
4. The poet does not
actually say that the fog is like a cat, but he uses the metaphor of cat for
comparison.
Three things that tell us
that the fog is like a cat are:
- It comes silently like a cat on its small feet.
- It looks over like a cat.
- It sits on its haunches like a cat.
Question 2.
You know that a metaphor
compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other.
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 | Snake | Long rope like body |
| Fire | Sun | Symbol of power |
| School | Temple | Teaches moral values, virtues |
| Home | Shelter | Safety, warmth |
2. Think about a storm. Try to visualise the force of the storm, hear the
sound of the storm, feel the power of the storm and the sudden calm that
happens afterwards. Write a poem about the storm comparing it with an
animal.
Answer:
Do it yourself.
Question 3.
Does this poem have a rhyme
scheme? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free
verse’.
Answer:
This poem does not have a rhyme scheme as the sentences do not end with like
sounds. There is no pattern of similarity in the sounds of the ending words of
any of the sentences, therefore the poem is written in free verse.