The Listeners
“The Listeners” by Walter Del La Mare is a poem, which has an unexpected ending. I will show how the poet creates mood and atmosphere through imagery, alliteration, rhythm and rhyme. I felt this poem is very strange because it is ghostly and spooky.
“The Listeners” is about a “traveller” who comes to an empty house in the forest floor and keeps on knocking on the door asking “ I s there anybody there?” but no one answers and he is some how perplexed.