Question

Show how the Poet has explored the theme of keeping promise in his poem "The Listeners"​

Answer 1

"The Listeners" describes a traveler who has come to knock on a moonlit door in an eerie, unknown place. He has come to keep an unnamed promise, and knocks on the door harder and harder, but gets no response. Unbeknownst to him, a "host of phantom listeners' (line 13) are inside but unresponsive to his calls. The traveler finally leaves, but the listeners remain.

The theme of the poem is the place of man in a universe which is far greater than he, and which he can neither connect with nor understand. It focuses on man's state of isolation and disharmony with the natural world. Nature, as represented by the horse placidly munching on the grass and the bird frightened by the man's disturbing clamor, is normally serene - it is only man who is anxious because of his separateness. The traveler tries to overcome his aloneness and establish meaning by fruitless seeking (knocking) and responsible living (keeping promises), but the natural world remains unyielding in keeping its distance, and the traveler continues on alone.

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Answer 2

Answer:

The question is from the poem "The Listeners"

Explanation:

Poet explored the theme of keeping the promise when:

The traveler’s assertion of keeping his promise probably made to the dwellers of the house kindle mysterious strangeness. Nothing is hinted at distinctly or in specific terms about the promise, examples like what was the promise? To whom was it made? Why did he come at 3 am to see the dwellers of the house? Whatever the answers may be it causes an all-encompassing feeling of failure, a failure that also submerges the traveler’s mind. Virtually the unnatural feeling of the traveler may be the reflection of his once oppressed experiences or unfulfilled desires. The shock of failed communication, inability to fulfill his promise, and such perplex efforts on the part of the traveler might have been experienced by him before and technically repressed into his unconscious.

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