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The voice in "that voice from the world of men" refers to the voice of the traveler who is seeking admittance to the house (" 'Is there anybody there?' he said"), and it is from "the world of men" in contrast to the world not of men, or beyond men that exists inside the house, and which is inhabited by "only a host of phantom listeners." The impression is that those listeners inside of the house are perhaps ghosts or spirits of some kind. This is implied most of all by the word "phantom" in the quotation above but also by the reference to "their strangeness" which the traveler "felt" and by the description of them "thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair." This last quotation suggests that these "listeners" exist in the air, illuminated only by the shafts of moonlight that penetrate the windows. They are ethereal, and immaterial. Nonetheless, they may be real, meaning that they might really exist outside of the traveler's mind. Or, as the word phantom sometimes suggests, they might be illusory, a projection of the traveler's imagination, existing only inside his mind.
Either way, the traveler's voice, calling repeatedly, "Is anybody there," goes unanswered. The real mystery of this poem is why the listeners choose not to respond to his voice, the only voice from "the world of men." They certainly seem to hear him ("Stood listening...they heard his foot upon the stirrup"), and he has been asked to call on the house ("Tell them I came...that I kept my word"), but still they do not respond. The fact that the traveler's voice is described as "that voice from the world of men" could suggest that it is not so much the individual traveler but the "world of men" that they will not, or cannot, respond to.
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What does the poet refer to as "that voice from the world of men"?
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The voice in "that voice from the world of men" refers to the voice of the traveler who is seeking admittance to the house (" 'Is there anybody there?' he said"), and it is from "the world of men" in contrast to the world not of men, or beyond men that exists inside the house, and which is inhabited by "only a host of phantom listeners." The impression is that those listeners inside of the house are perhaps ghosts or spirits of some kind. This is implied most of all by the word "phantom" in the quotation above but also by the reference to "their strangeness" which the traveler "felt" and by the description of them "thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair." This last quotation suggests that these "listeners" exist in the air, illuminated only by the shafts of moonlight that penetrate the windows. They are ethereal, and immaterial. Nonetheless, they may be real, meaning that they might really exist outside of the traveler's mind. Or, as the word phantom sometimes suggests, they might be illusory, a projection of the traveler's imagination, existing only inside his mind.
Either way, the traveler's voice, calling repeatedly, "Is anybody there," goes unanswered. The real mystery of this poem is why the listeners choose not to respond to his voice, the only voice from "the world of men." They certainly seem to hear him ("Stood listening...they heard his foot upon the stirrup"), and he has been asked to call on the house ("Tell them I came...that I kept my word"), but still they do not respond. The fact that the traveler's voice is described as "that voice from the world of men" could suggest that it is not so much the individual traveler but the "world of men" that they will not, or cannot, respond to.
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