UP Board Class 10 English Chapter 8 – Fog Trees (Poetry)
UP Board Class 10 English Chapter 8 – Fog Trees (Poetry)
UP Board Solutions for Class 10 English Chapter 8 – Fog Trees (Poetry)
Stanza-Wise Explanation of the Poem
1. The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then, moves on.
Explanation The poet says that the fog comes silently like a cat which comes on its little feet. Further, the poet says that just like a cat sits silently by folding her knees and looks around the nearby places and things, the fog also sits over the harbour and the city covering everything. Then after sometime, just like the cat moves on silently, the fog also disappears from the harbour and the city quietly.
व्याख्या कवि कहता है कि कोहरा ठीक उसी प्रकार आता है जिस प्रकार बिल्ली उसके छोटे पंजों पर धीरे से ( चुपचाप ) आती है। आगे कवि कहता है कि जैसे एक बिल्ली अपने घुटनों को मोड़कर चुपचाप बैठ जाती है और आस-पास की चीज़ों एवं जगाहों को देखती है, वैसे ही कोहरा भी बन्दरगाह तथा शहर पर सब कुछ ढँक कर बैठ जाता है। फिर, कुछ समय पश्चात् जैसे बिल्ली चुपचाप चली जाती है, कोहरा भी बन्दरगाह एवं शहर से चुपचाप गायब हो जाता है अर्थात् समाप्त हो जाता है।
Central Idea of the Poem
परीक्षा में Poetry भाग की किन्हीं भी दो Poems के नाम दिए जाते हैं, जिनमें से किसी एक Poem का Central Idea लिखना होता है।
In this poem, the natural phenomenon ‘fog’ is described. Fog is a thick cloud of tiny water droplets present in the atmosphere. It is generally seen during the winter season. The poet beautifully compares the coming and disappearing of the fog to a cat. The cat also comes to a place silently and then disappears silently. The fog sits and looks over the harbour and the city just like a cat sits silently and looks around. As no one notices the cat, similarly no one notices coming and disappearing of the fog.
इस कविता में, ‘कोहरे की प्राकृतिक घटना का वर्णन किया गया है। कोहरा वातावरण में उपस्थित छोटी बूँदों का एक घना बादल होता है। यह सामान्यत: शीत ऋतु के दौरान दिखाई देता है। कवि बहुत सुन्दरता से कोहरे के आने और गायब होने की तुलना बिल्ली से करता है। बिल्ली भी कोहरे के समान चुपचाप अर्थात् धीरे से बिना किसी आहट के किसी जगह आती है और इसी तरह चुपचाप गायब हो जाती है। कोहरा भी उसी प्रकार बैठकर बन्दरगाह एवं शहर की ओर देखता है, जिस प्रकार बिल्ली चुपचाप बैठती है एवं स्वयं के इर्द-गिर्द का वातावरण देखती है। जिस प्रकार कोई बिल्ली की ओर ध्यान नहीं देता, उसी प्रकार कोई भी कोहरे के आने एवं चले जाने पर ध्यान नहीं देता ।
Part A Objective Questions
Extract Based Questions
परीक्षा में पाठ्य पुस्तक से किसी भी Poem का एक अंश (Stanza) दिया जाता है तथा उस पर आधारित 2 प्रश्नों के उत्तर देने होते हैं। यहाँ पर Stanza के साथ 2 से अधिक Questions दिए गए हैं, जो केवल विद्यार्थियों के सम्पूर्ण अभ्यास के लिए हैं। परीक्षा में 1-1 अंकों के 2 ही Questions पूछे जाएँगे।
Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow.
1. The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbour and city
on silent haunches
and then, moves on.
Questions
Q. 1. Who is the poet of the poem written above?
इस कविता का कवि कौन है ?
(a) Carl Sandburg
(b) William Butler Yeats
(c) John Berryman
(d) Robert Frost
Ans. (a) Carl Sandburg
Q. 2. With what has the fog been compared and why?
कोहरे की तुलना किससे और क्यों की गई है ? [2022 Modified]
(a) Compared to a spirit because it is horrible
(b) Compared to darkness because we can’t see through it
(c) Compared to a cat because it comes quietly and without warning, sits and looks over and gets back silently
(d) All of the above
Ans. (c) Compared to a cat because it comes quietly and without warning, sits and looks over and gets back silently
Q 3. The fog comes ……………. .
कोहरा कैसे आता है?
(a) loudly
(b) hastily
(c) silently
(d) slowly
Ans.(c) silently
Q. 4. What does the fog do in the end?
कोहरा अन्त में क्या करता है?
(a) Moves on
(b) Continues being there
(c) Becomes more thick
(d) All of these
Ans. (a) Moves on
Q. 5. ‘It sits looking over the harbour’.
What does the word ‘harbour’ mean here?
‘It sits looking over the harbour’ यहाँ ‘harbour’ शब्द का क्या अर्थ है ?
(a) Place where people go for picnics
(b) Place by the sea
(c) River bank
(d) Place where ships load and unload
Ans. (d) Place where ships load and unload
Q. 6. How does the fog come?
(a) Like a little cat
(b) Like a small frog
(c) Like a crocodile
(d) Like a ferocious storm
Ans. (a) Like a little cat
Q.7. What does ‘It’ refer to in the poem?
कविता में ‘It’ क्या दर्शाता है ?
(a) Cat
(b) City
(c) Fog
(d) Harbour
Ans. (c) Fog
Part B Descriptive Type Questions
Short Answer Type Questions
Q. 1. How does the poet compare the fog to a cat?
‘कवि कोहरे की तुलना एक बिल्ली से कैसे करता है?
Ans. The poet compares the fog to a cat because of similarity in their movements. The silent steps of a cat and the way it sits by folding its knees are both very similar to the way fog comes and surrounds the city and harbour and looks over it.
Q. 2. What image does the poet give to the fog? What are the similarities between that image and fog?
कवि कोहरे को क्या छवि प्रदान करता है? उस छवि और कोहरे में क्या समानताएँ हैं?
Ans. The poet looks at the fog as a living creature and compares it to a cat. The fog covers a place suddenly and disappears in the same manner as the coming and going of a cat.
The fog remains over any area like a cat sitting by folding its knees. Just like a cat that cannot sit and relax in one place, the fog is also a temporary visitor to a place. Both move on after sometime.
Q. 3. The poem ‘Fog’ states/presents fog as full of opposite forces. Do you agree? Justify your answer.
कविता ‘Fog’ कोहरे को विपरीत शक्तियों से भरा हुआ वर्णित या प्रस्तुत करती है। क्या आप सहमत हैं। अपने उत्तर को तर्कसंगत सिद्ध कीजिए ।
Ans. Yes, I agree that the poem ‘fog’ presents fog as full of opposite forces. In the poem, fog is conceived to come and go silently like a cat. In contrast to this secretive nature, fog is overpowering. It spreads over to the harbour and looks very carefully at the whole cityscape and moves on after some time.
Q. 4. Highlight any two characteristics of fog from its description in the poem and justify your choice of characteristics briefly.
कविता में किए गए कोहरे के वर्णन से किन्हीं दो विशेषताओं पर प्रकाश डालिए और संक्षेप में अपने चुनाव को तर्कसंगत सिद्ध कीजिए ।
Ans. The fog is a silent and mysterious thing. It enters a city without any warning or sign and leaves just as silently. We as readers, are not aware of its creation or the reason for its leaving.
Q. 5. 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’.
क्या कोहरे को शहर का निवासी या बाहरी (परदेशी) के रूप में चित्रित किया है? अपने उत्तर को ऐसे दो प्रसंगों द्वारा समर्थन प्रदान करें।
Ans. The fog is portrayed as an outsider who is looking over the city. It comes silently and mysteriously, and leaves without doing anything other than observing. Furthermore, no one notices its coming and disappearing as it is not familiar with the place.