The poems “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth share both similarities and differences. One similarity that both poems share are symbols. In Sandburg’s poem, the title “Fog” is a symbol within itself. The title hovers over the poem just like fog does in nature. That cat mentioned at the beginning of the poem symbolizes how the fog approaches “on little cat feet” and then sits on “silent haunches” before “mov[ing] on” (Sandburg 899). The fog moves in the same way that a cat does and behaves like a cat, too, meaning its movements are unpredictable and mysterious. The reader is not sure where the fog is going or what it is going to do. Similarly, in Wordsworth poem, the daffodils that the speaker describes
