The traveller said,"Tell them I came,and no one answered/That I kept my word." What do you understand by these words of his?
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It means that that the traveller kept his words by coming but no one answered. He tells it someone who might convey it to the person he came to meet.
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Answer:
The poem begins with the Traveller and his horse. Knocking the door in the moonlight standing all alone with his horse. The traveler had come to a house in the forest at the night but he didn’t get any response from inside, no voice came nor did anybody move out because there was actually no one in the house. He was expecting to be greeted by someone, but no one answers his calls. The traveler moves inside the house where a certain presence resides. There are “phantoms” within the empty building. They “listen” well to the Traveller.
The intimates of the house were ghosts. It is clear from the lines in the poem ‘ But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the house's message the traveler left before going was ‘ Tell them I came and no one answered.’
The Traveller can, to some extent, sense them there. He calls out a number of strange phrases that add to the mystery of the poem, and then finally leaves without an answer.
Explanation:
‘The Listeners’ by Walter de la Mare describes the actions of a Traveller who knocks on at the door of a seemingly deserted home at night. But that house noone stays except the Ghosts.