FOG

COMPETENCY BASED QUESTIONS

1. Stealth is an important aspect of fog. State any two instances from the poem “Fog” that suggest the same.

2. Highlight any two characteristics of fog from its description in the poem and justify your choice of characteristics briefly.

3. Is the fog portrayed as a resident of the city or as an outsider? Support your answer with two such references from the poem “Fog”. 

4. Would you describe the role of the fog as active or passive? Support your answer with reference to the poem “Fog”.

5. Why does the poet use the phrase “silent haunches”? Substantiate your answer with reference to the poem “Fog”.

6. Comment, in detail, on the significance of the closing phrase of the poem-“moves on”.

7. In the poem “Fog”, the poet features the fog as animated. If you had to write a similar poem for one other natural phenomenon, which animal would you use to convey the characteristics of that particular phenomena? Justify, in detail, your choice of animal corresponding to it by bringing out similarities.

8. Do you agree with the poet’s comparison of fog to a cat or do you feel some other image would have done justice to the poem? Justify your answer by substantiating your claims with examples.

9.The poet beautifully compares the fog to a cat. Choose any two animals from ‘How to Tell Wild Animals’ that do not have qualities that can be drawn out to be compared with a fog.