'THE FOG' by F.R. McCreary.Slowly the fog, |
What Is 'The Fog' About?
The Fog by F.R.McCreary is about a fog slowly moving through the streets and the fog is described as a human, using lots of personification. The fog is being described as dark and eerie. I chose this poem because I like how the poet used human-qualities to describe the fogs' actions.
What Are The Poetic Techniques?
One of the poetic device is personification. The poet has given lots of human qualities to a non-living thing, the fog. The poet has added arms, a face, fingers and shoulders to the fog to give the fog human qualities. The fog appears to be a old man as the poet described the fog to have hunched-shoulder with a grey face.
Another poetic device is repetition. Repetition of the word 'dark' reinforces that the fog is eerie and has a evil atmosphere.
'Slowly the fog', 'Arms wide', 'Searching, searching', 'Shoulders hunched/Hunched-shouldered' and 'Seeking, seeking' was also repeated in the poem.
Another poetic device is sibilant. Sibilant is the repetition of the 's' sound in a number of words. 'Up the short street from the harbor,' is an example of a sibilant.
Another poetic device is repetition. Repetition of the word 'dark' reinforces that the fog is eerie and has a evil atmosphere.
'Slowly the fog', 'Arms wide', 'Searching, searching', 'Shoulders hunched/Hunched-shouldered' and 'Seeking, seeking' was also repeated in the poem.
Another poetic device is sibilant. Sibilant is the repetition of the 's' sound in a number of words. 'Up the short street from the harbor,' is an example of a sibilant.
What Are The Themes?
Change is one of the main theme of this poem because at the start of the poem it starts off with a normal landscape. Later on in the poem, the fog suddenly comes in and it changed everything. The change is a normal landscape representing how beautiful nature is, turned into a scary nature and environment that has been ruined by the fog.
My Opinions
My opinions on the poem 'The Fog' is I like the idea of the poet using personification to describe the fog's movement. I was confused about the last line 'A blind man hunting the moon.'. At first I thought that the fog was like a blind man hunting the moon but I wasn't sure if my theory was right. I tried searching up the saying of 'A blind man hunting the moon.' but nothing was useful. I thought the fog was impersonating a blind man hunting the moon because the poet explained that the fog was seeking and searching and finger-tips touching the way and normally the actions of a blind man is to be cautious of where they bump into and what they step on, so seeking, searching and finger-tips touching the way would be the best way to describe a blind man moving cautiously.
Either than being confused about the last line and doubted myself, I genuinely think it was a well written poem.
Either than being confused about the last line and doubted myself, I genuinely think it was a well written poem.