The poet creates an atmosphere of the supernatural in the poem ‘The Listeners ’. You read the poem in the class and were deeply influenced . You write a letter to your friend, Ria/ Ridham, in about 150 words,sharing your experience.
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1‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
2 Knocking on the moonlit door;
3And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
4 Of the forest’s ferny floor:
5And a bird flew up out of the turret,
6 Above the Traveller’s head:
7And he smote upon the door again a second time;
8 ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said.
9But no one descended to the Traveller;
10 No head from the leaf-fringed sill
11Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes,
12 Where he stood perplexed and still.
13But only a host of phantom listeners
14 That dwelt in the lone house then
15Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
16 To that voice from the world of men:
17Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
18 That goes down to the empty hall,
19Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
20 By the lonely Traveller’s call.
21And he felt in his heart their strangeness,
22 Their stillness answering his cry,
23While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf,
24 ’Neath the starred and leafy sky;
25For he suddenly smote on the door, even
26 Louder, and lifted his head:—
27‘Tell them I came, and no one answered,
28 That I kept my word,’ he said.
29Never the least stir made the listeners,
30 Though every word he spake
31Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house
32 From the one man left awake:
33Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
34 And the sound of iron on stone,
35And how the silence surged softly backward,
36 When the plunging hoofs were gone.
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‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller,
Knocking on the moonlit door;
And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
Of the forest’s ferny floor:
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