Line by line explanation of the poem the listeners by walter de la mare
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The poem 'The Listeners' was written by the poet Walter de la Mare.
This poem tells us about a traveller who knocks on a door in a place which was unknown to him. He has come to the house as he had made promise earlier. He knocks at door several times, but gets no response at all. He felt like if there were phantoms which were listening to him. The traveller then leaves the place.
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The poem ‘Listeners’ by Walter De La Mare is a spooky poem showing the meeting between phantoms and a mortal traveler.
The traveler perhaps came to keep an appointment fixed many years ago. He reached the house and knocked on the closed moonlit door. The knocking echoed as there was silence all around in the deserted house. A bird flew up from the lonely turret, perhaps frightened by the knocking. The traveler’s house kept grazing. Nobody answered the traveler’s knock.
The traveler knocked the second time asking if there was anybody in the house. However, no one answered this time also. Nor did anyone look down from the sill covered in leaves. Inside the house a host of phantoms that lived there, listened to the calls made by the traveler.
The phantoms had gathered together on the stairs and wondering at the disturbance caused by a human traveler in their peaceful existence. The traveler also felt the presence of phantoms inside the house while his horse kept moving while grazing under the star-studded sky.
The traveler knocked the door the third time and told the phantoms to give his message to them whom he had come to meet; but his knocking had not been answered.
The phantoms kept listening to the traveler and did not move a bit. Saying this, the traveler mounted his horse and galloped away. After the echoes of the hooves of his horse had subsided, the surroundings of the deserted house became submerged in total silence again.