Question

Read the poem “Fog,” by Carl Sandburg. The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Which lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" most likely influenced Sandburg’s poem?

Answer 1

The lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" most likely influenced Sandburg’s poem is this: - The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes - Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, - Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,  The fog in Sandburg’s poem has a parallel representation with the as a cat in the above line from the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock