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About the Poet
Carl August Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, writer and editor. He won
three Pulitzer Prizes- two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham
Lincoln. He wrote poems like grass, analysis, Chicago, etc.
Fog is a very small poem written by Carl Sandburg. He has described the process of
arrival of the fog into a city and the harbour. He has very beautifully compared it to a
cat.