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    The poem describes how the poet becomes disoriented in a thick fog. As the fog grows thicker, he loses the ability to judge distances and directions. Young boys appear like tall men and tall men like giants. Street lamps and car lights begin to look like stars in the sky. A blind man helps guide the poet safely home, revealing that we often mistrust what we cannot see.

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    VIII ENGLISH NOTES OF CHAPTER 4 POEM FOG

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    The poem describes how the poet becomes disoriented in a thick fog. As the fog grows thicker, he loses the ability to judge distances and directions. Young boys appear like tall men and tall men like giants. Street lamps and car lights begin to look like stars in the sky. A blind man helps guide the poet safely home, revealing that we often mistrust what we cannot see.

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    NEW YASHODA PUBLIC SCHOOL

    CLASS – VIII
    SUBJECT – ENGLISH
    NOTES

    CHAPTER 4 POEM THE FOG BY WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

    ➢ The poet talks about how the fog grew thicker by the minute and soon it became
    impossible for him to see or understand anything.

    ➢ It completely blinded his senses and made him disoriented.

    ➢ As he looked around through the fog, he found that young boys appeared much
    taller, almost like men and the tall men appeared huge like giants.

    ➢ The fog slowly started having an effect on him. He felt as if the fog was clutching
    onto his throat and choking him.

    ➢ He started coughing. His mind became empty and his eyes felt hot and heavy. He
    could clearly feel the heat in his eyes.

    ➢ As the fog grew thicker, it became darker around the poet.

    ➢ The poet, at that point in time, lost all his power of judgment of space and
    distance.

    ➢ He was not able to decide whether he had to move or standstill.

    ➢ He also could not determine how far he had walked or how much more he had to
    walk.

    ➢ The street lamps and the lights of the cars around him started looking like
    heavenly light.

    ➢ He could not make out whether they were on the earth or starred in the sky.
    ➢ A man passing by offered to help the poet reach home when the poet asks the
    way.

    ➢ Holding the man by his arm, the poet followed him blindly.

    ➢ Upon reaching a house, the man rapped on its stone walls and asked the poet to
    follow him inside.

    ➢ The poet did what he was told. Once inside, he discovered that the man who had
    guided him to safety was blind himself.

    THEME
    This poem talks about an incident where the poet gets disoriented in a thick fog
    and cannot find his way home. A person whom he meets on the road offers to help
    him. Once the poet reaches home, he realizes that the person who had helped him
    was blind. This discovery makes him realize that we as human beings trust only
    those things that we can see and question unseen things like love, faith, belief,
    religion, etc. From this poem, I learned that we should not judge a book by its
    cover.

    POETICE DEVICES

    1.Metaphor – A metaphor is said to be used when the poet compares one thing with
    another in the course of his verse. Davies also repeatedly draws comparison between the
    following:
    EX-1. ‘It made tall men of boys And giants of tall men.’
    2. The street lamps and the lights Upon the halted cars, be the heavenly stars.

    2 Simile: A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from
    metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as "like" or
    "as", while metaphors create an implicit comparison.
    Except two heavy eyes Like balls of burning lead.

    3.Personification - Personification is used in the statement, 'it clutched my throat'.


    The poet uses personification, giving attributes of a man to the fog, to intensify the effect of
    the fog on him.
    4.Rhyme - A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounding words, occurring at the end of lines in
    poems or songs. Some pairs of rhyming words from the poem are- (i) ken – men (ii) head –
    lead (iii) place – space (iv) cars – stars (v) said – led Rhyme Scheme: abcb dece fcbc …

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