Question

any one in 7th class please tell me summary of chapter the listners​

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Summary: The Listeners

The poem has mysterious and supernatural touch with the mention of ‘phantoms’ that might be the listeners because the query of the traveller goes unanswered.

The poem begins with the traveller knocking on a moonlit door in an unknown place. It is this sense of the unknown, with all its ambiguities, that controls the tone and mood of the poem. The place in the forest where the traveller finds himself is deserted and overgrown with brambles. The sense of isolation and strangeness causes the lonely human visitor first to knock on the door of the turreted house, then to smite it, and finally to smite it even louder, as his cries receive no response. It is only he who is perplexed and lonely in this night time scene though his horse is shown contentedly champing the grasses. This sense of mystery is deepened because we don’t know why the traveller was there. It is clearly to keep some promise, though it is peculiar for him to come to this lonely and isolated place in the middle of the night. Something must have compelled him to cry out repeatedly to a deserted house, without entering to see for himself who or what might be there. While the traveller feels in his heart the strangeness, stillness of the place and the ‘listeners’, his horse continues to crop the ‘dark turf’—oblivious to the things around. The poem ends with a shift in focus from the lonely traveller to the silent listeners; while he rushes to flee the scene, they remain behind in the returning silence.

Though the traveller leaves by leaving an oral message to the unknowns and leaves the place but the readers are left to think as who the listeners were – were they really ghosts or anything else be the case.