does the child think the sound are from an animal or and human ? what do you say so?
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Yes child can identify the sound of human and animal.
The poem "Night Voices" is a simple four-stanza poem that can be interpreted many ways. Although it starts innocently enough, with the children asking their father about sounds that seem to be voices in the night, the final two stanzas become progressively eerie as the children become more frightened and the father sits "so still and straight, / Ever staring, ever smiling, at the door." Certainly the poem is reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," which also begins with strange noises in the night and ends with a man sitting immobilized. Perhaps, as in Poe's poem, this father has lapsed into mental illness; the sounds are harmless sounds, but the man may have begun to believe that they are supernatural voices.
Another interpretation is that Father has nefarious intentions and that he has formed a league with the "night voices" that are suspiciously chuckling in the glen. The voices could belong to human beings--either crazies or criminals--who the father intends to allow in the house at the right time.