The Listeners – Walter de la Mare
Read the complete nineteen-line textbook selection of Walter de la Mare’s The Listeners in printed order, followed immediately by the exact author note.
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The Listeners: Complete Poem and Author Note
Read the complete nineteen-line textbook selection of Walter de la Mare’s The Listeners in printed order, followed immediately by the exact author note.
Open article →The Listeners: Setting, Knocks and No Answer
Follow the Traveller at the moonlit forest house, the horse and startled bird, his repeated knocking, and the silence that leaves him confused and still.
Open article →The Listeners: Phantoms, Silence and Mystery
Meet the unseen listeners inside the lone house and analyse how their attentive silence, the empty hall and the Traveller’s human call create mystery.
Open article →The Listeners: Sound, Rhyme and Poetic Devices
Study sound and silence, visual imagery, forest–ferny alliteration, five rhyming pairs and repetition in the mapped excerpt from The Listeners.
Open article →The Listeners: Author, Glossary and Key Lines
Learn Walter de la Mare’s mapped author note, all eight glossary meanings, evidence checks and a method for explaining significant lines from The Listeners.
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