The Listeners by Walter De Mare
D. Answer the following questions:
1. Who is the speaker?
The poet is the speaker.
2. What was the horse doing?
The horse ws champing the grass.
3. Who were the listeners?
A host of phantom were the listeners.
4. How did the Traveller feel when nobody answered?
The traveller was perplexed. He stood still.
5. What kind of feeling does the poem create?
The poem creates a feeling of mystery.
E. Work in pairs and answer the questions given below.
1. Of the forest’s ferny floor. Pick out the words alliterated.
Ans: forest’s ferny, floor
2. Pick out the rhyming words from the poem.
Ans: head /said, sill/still, then men, hall / call
3. Write the words which are used to create a sense of mystery.
Ans:
Moonlit door,
in the silence champed the grass,
above the Traveller’s head,
No one descended to the traveller,
No head from the leaf-fringed sill,
he stood perplexed and still,
a host of phantom listeners,
in the lone house,
quiet of the moonlight,
faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
empty hall,
air stirred and shaken.
PARAGRAPH WRITING
Describe how the poet creates a sense of mystery in the poem.
Ans:
It is night time. The moon is bright in the sky. A lonely traveller comes to a lonely house in the forest. He knocks on the door. There is no reply. He repeats knocking a second time. He asks if there was anyone inside. There is total silence. The horse is champing the grass. No head is seen at the window. The traveller stands still. He is bewildered. Only the phantom ghosts in the house listen to him. The moonlight falls on the door. The stair is dark. The hall is empty. There is no one to respond to the traveller’s call. Thus a sense of mystery surrounds the place.
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