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S A I I N T E R N A T I O N A L S C H O O L
SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
CLASS-X, ENGLISH
MINDMAP- FOG

Poet •Carl August Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet,
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writer and editor. He won three Pulitzer Prizes- two for
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his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Fog •"Fog" is a poem that reflects Sandburg's interestt in the
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natural world and beautifully captures a moment or two
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when the fog came moving in over the harbour waters, a
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powerful image given life through a metaphorical cat.
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•Carl Sandburg's Fog has two central themes which mainly
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Theme describe the attitude of man towards nature and how
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change is an inevitable part of a naturall process.
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Everything about this poem is changing. And the cat turns
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back into the fog. It was first published in 'Chicagoo Poems'
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in 1916.