Question

3. The phrase
distinguishes the traveller from the listeners
4. The traveller knocked on the door
number of times.
5. The sound of iron on stone is made by the​

Answer 1

ers" is a disembodied storyteller, at a distance from the action of the piece. The intention of the speaker is to tell a story—specifically, to relate a mysterious episode in the life of the Traveller who encounters a ghostly world. As a personality, the speaker seems neutral and detached from the action of the poem. The poem's narrative is simply descriptive, offering neither judgment nor much insight into the thoughts of the poem's characters.

The closest the reader gets to a character in the poem is in line 21, when the Traveller feels "in his heart" that there are supernatural presences listening to him from the silent house. The speaker doesn't offer us any information about the Traveller's thought process, but only what the Traveller does in response to those thoughts. This storytelling stance increases the sense that the poem is a tale concerned with the mysterious and unknowable, told in order to bring a chill to its listeners.

is a grand one. Otherwise, the prevailing characteristic of the setting is stillness a understood by human reason. As a poet, he is often compared to his older contemporary Thomas Hardy, whom he admired and was acquainted with. Hardy's visionary poetic