Question

what is happening in the opening lines of the poem, "The Listener"​

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.