Chapter- 20 Fog
1. Who is the poet of the poem Fog?
Answer: The poet is W. H. Davies.
2. What is the poem Fog about?
Answer: The poem describes how thick fog makes even a person with sight feel blind.
3. What happens when the fog grows thick?
Answer: It makes everything unclear and blinds the poet’s vision.
4. What does the poet mean by “blind my ken”?
Answer: It means the fog makes him unable to see or understand anything clearly.
5. How does the fog change the appearance of people?
Answer: Boys look like tall men and tall men look like giants.
6. What physical discomfort does the fog cause the poet?
Answer: The fog clutches his throat and makes him cough.
7. How does the poet describe his eyes?
Answer: He describes them as heavy, like balls of burning lead.
8. What happens when the fog becomes very dark?
Answer: The poet loses his sense of place, distance, and direction.
9. Why does the poet lose judgment of distance and space?
Answer: Because the fog blocks his vision completely.
10. What do the street lamps and car lights look like in the fog?
Answer: They look like stars in the sky.
11. Why is the poet confused by the lights?
Answer: He cannot tell whether they are on earth or in the sky.
12. Whom does the poet meet in the fog?
Answer: He meets a man passing close by.
13. What does the poet ask the man?
Answer: He asks the man to show him the way.
14. How does the man help the poet?
Answer: He asks the poet to follow him and guides him safely.
15. What sound does the man make while guiding the poet?
Answer: He raps the stones in front with a stick.
16. Why does the man rap the stones?
Answer: To find the safe path and guide the poet.
17. What does the man say to gain the poet’s trust?
Answer: He says, “Trust me.”
18. How does the poet follow the man?
Answer: He follows him like a child.
19. Why does the poet compare himself to a child?
Answer: Because he feels helpless and fully dependent.
20. Who leads the poet home?
Answer: A blind man leads him home.
21. What is the irony in the poem?
Answer: A blind man guides a man who can see.
22. What message does the poem convey?
Answer: Sometimes blind people can guide others better than those who can see.
23. How does the poem challenge our common belief?
Answer: It shows that sighted people are not always better off.
24. What literary device is used in “balls of burning lead”?
Answer: Simile.
25. What is the mood of the poem?
Answer: Confusing at first, then calm and reassuring.
26. What role does fog play in the poem?
Answer: It symbolizes blindness and confusion.
27. What kind of poem is Fog?
Answer: A narrative poem describing a personal experience.
28. How does the poet feel at the end of the poem?
Answer: Safe and grateful.
29. What does the blind man represent in the poem?
Answer: Wisdom, confidence, and inner vision.
30. What lesson do we learn from the poem Fog?
Answer: True guidance comes from confidence and understanding, not just eyesight.
Answer by Dimpee Bora
