6/25/2023 0 Comments The fog poem by robert frost![]() This part of the interpretation of the poem is rather difficult, and it has drawn a variety of responses from various critics. This leads us to believe that Sandburg too must have wanted to use the form of the haiku to speak about some aspect of modernist life. The faces in the underground metro station had seemed spectral and ghostly to him, for none of them were talking to each other. Now, Pound had used the haiku to depict the solitude and anomie of common man in the modernist era. However, we can argue that this is not such a major extension and that in any case each of his lines is very short much shorter than any line in Pound’s haiku in fact. The only way in which Sandburg departs from a traditional haiku as well as the haiku of Pound is to extend its length from 3 lines to 6 lines. These are both dissimilar things, yet their comparison seems apt to us, as it had in Pound’s poem as well. ![]() He compares the fog with the concrete image of a cat. ![]() Sandburg also makes use of extended metaphor in the same way in this poem “Fog”. Thus, he had evoked a concrete image of the natural world to describe something he had seen in the urban cityscape of the 20 th century. ![]()
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