What does the speaker mean by my head's in a fog
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The poet W.H. Davis describes in his poem 'The Fog' the effect of the fog on him. It blurred his vision and he was unable to see things clearly. He lost the sense of direction and space, not knowing where to go. He felt there was nothing in his head except for two burning eyes. He couldn't breathe due to the dense for and he coughed. The street lamps falling on the moving car no more helped people and looked like distant stars.
A man came who passed by the poet and offered him to show the way. The man led the poet home and when they reached home the poet came to learn that the man was blind as he rapped the wall with his stick.
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The poet finds himself in a fog so thick that he is disoriented and cannot find his way home. He is then helped by a man who promised to take him home. Once the poet got home, he realizes that the man who had led him home was blind. On a more abstract level, the poem may be about how people trust only what they can literally see, and lack awareness of things unseen, such as faith, belief, religion, etc.
Stanza 1
I saw the fog grow thick
Which soon made blind my ken;
It made tall men of boys,
And giants of tall men.
I saw the fog growing enormously heavy, Soon the fog made me blind, boys appeared to be tall men in the fog, and tall men appeared to be giants in the fog.
Stanza 2
It clutched my throat, I coughed;
Nothing was in my head
Except two heavy eyes
Like balls of burning lead.
The fog had its effect on me. I felt like being choked. I coughed, my head seemed empty, yet I could feel my eyes, very heavy and hot now. I could feel the heat of my eyes.
Stanza 3
And when it grew so black
That I could know no place,
I lost all judgment then,
Of distance and of space.
The red, hot light in my eyes was now gone. It was dark. I lost directions, track… I was not able to decide where I should move, where I was… No idea how much distance I covered and how much I had to cover.
Stanza 4
The street lamps, and the lights
Upon the halted cars,
Could either be on earth
Or be the heavenly stars.
There were street lamps and their light fell upon the halted cars but I could not say if they were really lamps or the stars in the sky.
Stanza 5
A man passed by me close,
I asked my way, he said,
“Come, follow me, my friend”
I followed where he led.
While I walked thus, a stranger passed by, and he asked me to follow him. So I followed him, without suspecting him.
Stanza 6
He rapped the stones in front,
“Trust me,” he said, “and come”;
I followed like a child
A blind man led me home.
Finally we reached a house and the man rapped on the walls of a a stone hut. He asked me to trust him, to follow him into the stone hut, I followed him, without doubting. Once inside, I learnt that he was a blind man.
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