ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Setting & Tone The poem is physically set in a moonlit wood at nighttime, which helps set the eerie tone of the poem. The house in the middle of the forest is no less creepy, described as ‘lone, ’ ‘empty, ’ ‘shadowy, ’ and ‘still.

Detailed explanation-2: -The author of the poem, ‘the listeners’ creates a sense of mystery by using both the main character, the traveller and through the environment in the poem. The traveller is speaking to somebody but we do not know who and what he is promising to them. This is what is the mystery.

Detailed explanation-3: -SUMMARY: The Listeners by Walter John de la Mare: Walter de la Mare’s ‘The Listeners’ is a stanza-long poem with thirty-six lines. On a moonlit night, a traveller comes on his horse and knocks at the door of a house.

Detailed explanation-4: -Machines are the speakers and humans are the listeners of the poem. Was this answer helpful?