Literary Devices In Carl Sandburg's Poem Fog

Carl Sandburg writes the poem “Fog” in six short lines and twenty-one words. Even though the poem “Fog” is so short, Sandburg integrates the poem with a lot of meaning behind every word. The poem is extraordinarily meaningful and has a bit of a pattern in the words and letters. Sandburg uses a boat load of literary devices to add to the sense of imagination and creativity to the reader. Some of the literary devices include alliteration, assonance, and metaphor. Sandburg most notably uses metaphor in the poem “Fog.” Sandburg integrates the poem “Fog” with a metaphor comparing a cat to a fog. Sandburg firsts establishes the metaphor between the cat and the fog in the first few lines of the poem, “the fog comes / on little cat feet” (l. 1-2). The lines compare how a fog rolls in over a city and how a cat quietly comes. Cats are notorious for being light-footed. They move as silent as blood moving through a person's veins. Cats can stroll into a room without being noticed. Cat owners know this first hand. Their cats can come into their rooms without being heard or noticed. The quietness and silentness can be compared to a fog

3-5). Theses lines compare how a cat just sits there doing nothing and a fog just sits there doing nothing. Cats can sometimes walk to somewhere and just plop down and sit there for hours just observing. Cats are content with just sitting there doing nothing for hours at a time just observing its surroundings. Cats most of the time like to sit on a ledge and observe a harbor or the city skyline for a long time. Fogs do much of the same too. Fogs will roll over a city or a harbor and just sit there for hours. The fog will be doing nothing but just staying at one place and lowering visibility. Fogs generally only stay at cities or harbors because of the weather and wind