Question

On one side of the door was the traveler. Who was on the other side listening to him knock? Were they afraid of the traveler?

The Listeners, English​

Answer 1

In Walter De La Mare's poem "The Listeners", the phantoms were listening to him knock from the other side of the door.

It is uncertain as to whether the phantoms were afraid or helpless from the narrative style. The poem is written in third person so the the entire picture is an objective. There are no response from the phantoms as is stated by ghe speaker.

So, even if the phantoms were not afraid of the stranger outside, the traveller is certainly sacred of the spirits inside. Even when he knows he is keeping a promise, he ddoes not enter into the lonely house in fear of seeing something unearthly things.

Answer 2

Explanation:

The image of a lone bird flying out of the turret of an apparently abandoned mansion in the forest and the restlessness of the horse add to the eeriness of the poem. Also, the only sound that could be heard in the silence of the forest was that of the horse champing the grass. This also accentuates the sense of unease that the poem conveys