“Fog” Summary

“Fog” Themes

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  The Mystery of Nature

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Line-by-Line Explanation & Analysis of “Fog”

• Lines 1-2

  The fog comes
  on little cat feet.

  

  

  

  

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• Lines 3-5

  It sits looking
  over harbor and city
  on silent haunches

  

  

  

  

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• Line 6

  and then moves on.

  

  

  

  

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“Fog” Poetic Devices & Figurative Language

• Alliteration

  

  

  

  

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• Sibilance

  

  

  

  

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• Extended Metaphor

  

  

  

  

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• Enjambment

  

  

  

  

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“Fog” Vocabulary

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• Harbor
• Haunches

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Form, Meter, & Rhyme Scheme of “Fog”

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“Fog” Speaker

“Fog” Setting

Literary and Historical Context of “Fog”

More “Fog” Resources

• External Resources

  • The Poem Out Loud — Listen to Carl Sandburg reading "Fog." 

  • What Was the Chicago Literary Renaissance? — An introduction to the literary movement in which Sandburg played an important role.

  • Who Was Carl Sandburg? — A short biography of the poet from the Academy of American Poets. 

  • Chicago Poems — The full text of Chicago Poems, the book in which "Fog" first appeared.

  • An Interview with Carl Sandburg — An interview with the poet by NBC.