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Practice each question, then open the answer or worked solution.
Write a description of a person or an animal (such as a pet) that you know very well and love very much. Questions (4) and (5) in ‘Thinking about the Text’ will have given you some idea about how to do this. Mention some things the person or animal does, what you think the person or animal feels, etc.
Activity to be done by yourself.
Question 1:
(i) What does Sandburg think the fog is like?
(ii) How does the fog come?
(iii) What does ‘it’ in the third line refer to?
(iv) 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.
You know that a metaphor compares two things by transferring a feature of one thing to the other (See Unit 1).
(i) Find metaphors for the following words and complete the table below.
| Storm | tiger | pounces over the fields, growls |
| Train | ||
| Fire | ||
| School | ||
| Home |
Also try to say how they are alike. The first is done for you.
(ii) 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.
(i)
| Storm | tiger | pounces over the fields, growls |
| Train | wind | moves swiftly with a rushing sound |
| Fire | sun | full of light and energy |
| School | temple | teaches moral values and virtues of life |
| Home | nest | provides hospitable and comfortable shelter to live with near and dear ones |
(ii) Activity to be done by yourself.
(Note: Students can write this answer as per their personal experiences.)
Does this poem have a rhyme scheme? Poetry that does not have an obvious rhythm or rhyme is called ‘free verse’.
No, this poem does not have a rhyme scheme as the sentences do not have rhyming words. It is written in free verse with no set pattern of rhyming words towards the end of each sentence.
The NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English available at BYJU’S is a great way to master the fundamental topics. To get a good hold on the chapter, students can use these solutions based on their needs. Chapter 8 requires thorough preparation to score well in the board exams. The PDF version of NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English can be downloaded using the links provided below. Brief summaries of the prose lesson and poem covered in Chapter 8 of NCERT Solutions for Class 10 English are given here.
Mijbil the Otter (Prose)In this chapter, Class 10 students learn how Gavin Maxwell travelled to Southern Iraq in 1956 as he wanted to keep an otter as a pet and discussed the same with his friend. His friend sent him an otter as he stayed in Basra for a few days. He christened the little otter as “Mijbil” and he would watch in amazement while the otter played different games. When he took Mijbil to London and went for a walk, people would make wild guesses while trying to identify it. Some people’s guesses ranged from a baby seal, a squirrel, a walrus, a beaver, a bear cub, a leopard, a hippo to a brontosaurus.
Fog (Poem)In this poem, the poet Carl Sandburg tries to depict the fog coming like a cat silently on its small feet, watching the harbour and the city, while sitting with its knees bent. Then, slowly the fog disappears like a cat moving away from one place to another, steadily and silently.