Poetry Comparison - Fog and Dusting

            The poem, "Fog," by Carl Sandburg, and the poem, "Dusting," by Julia Alvarez, show literary elements including imagery, figurative language, sound, rhythm.
             "Fog" by Carl Sandburg starts off right with a metaphor, he says, "The fog comes on little cat feet," it is also imagery because he wants us to imagine the fog in a catlike way. In this poem, he is straightforward with his ideas, getting right to the point he is trying to make. The line also gives us the idea that the fog is moving slowly towards us creeping its way through, just like a cat is very slow and cautious. In line 3, "It sits looking over harbor and city," tell us it has taken up more space now. It's here. We imagine the metaphor in the first stanza as a fog looking catlike, but not the fog is, "sitting," just like a cat would, with their body spread out like fog does. The mood of this poem is kind of frightening, interrogating. The fog is, "over," us, like it is watching over every move. The word, "city," in this poem describes that maybe we aren't the only ones experiencing it. There are others that are also anxious to see what is in store. Lines 5-6, "on silent haunches and then moves on," extending the explanation that the fog looking catlike is sitting and looking, "on silent haunches" (cat's thighs, parts that enable a cat to jump and pounce as far as they'd like to). There is also repetition of the word, "on," in this poem. The poet seems to be keeping his metaphor fused unto the one image of a cat-fog. .
             "Dusting," by Julia Alvarez, the poet uses her imprints as symbolism in the poem. This is because they represent her mother wiping them away, meaning, her mom wipes away all her dreams that she wants to pursue. "Each morning I wrote my name/ on the dusty cabinet, then crossed/ the dining table in script, scrawled/ in capitals on the back of chairs/ practicing signatures like scales" (lines 1-5).