Can Explain The Poem The Listeners By Walter De La Mare?
The title “the listeners” is apt as the listeners are the phantoms or the ghost.this poem de vides the two different world i.e the world of the living(the traveller) and the world of the dead(the phantoms).T he poem leaves behind many un answered questions as whether the traveller is aware of that place;if he is than why he dont’ know that no body is living there so on and so forth………..the traveller 1st time knocks at the door his horse was undisturbed and was munching the grasses or the wild ferns that were growing on the forest floor.As there was no one living there for long so the nature(bird)were not use to the noise made by the traveller so by the knocking the bird flew away from the nest .Then the traveller struck(smote)the door for the 2nd time but nobody came down towards the door(this line indicate that he might know that house as he says that nobody descended:he knew that their were stairs).The trees were growing wildly and not been checked so they were outlining or cov
