chapter 6 the listeners notes
Answers
Is it a poem or lesson? if it is a poem write down this answers.
Explanation:
1) Here whom does he refer to?
ans.) He refer to the narrator.
2) Why does he smite again the door a second time?
ans.) He smote the door again because there is no one there.
3) What happend after he did so?
ans.) No one descended to the traveller and leand over (or) looked into his eyes. But traveller felt someone stood listening and thronging.
4) Who is being addressed here?
ans.) Listners
5) Why do you think he says I kept my word?
ans.) Because he said listeners to convey that he came and by that he kept his word
6) Do you think this is the speaker's first visit?
ans.) No, this cannot be his first visit. Because he said that he came again and by that he kept his word.
7) In "the listeners" the poet creates an atmosphere of mystery and fear support this statement with your own reasons and examples from the text.
ans.) Because no body is responding to the traveller for his smoting that implies that the listeners are in fear.
8) Do you think the title of the poem is appropriate?
ans.) Yes because it is signifying the experience of the listener's and their fear factor