73. The Listeners(10)

1. Who wrote The Listeners?
A:- Walter De La Mare wrote 'The Listeners.'

 2.What did the traveller do when he reached the lone house?
A:-The traveller knocked at the door when he reached the lone house.

3. What did the traveller say knocking at the door?
A:-By knocking at the door the traveller asked if there was anybody there.

4. How did the bird greet when the traveller knocked at the door?
A:-The bird greeted the traveller by flowing out of the turret above his head when he knocked at the door.

5. What was the reaction of the traveller when he did not get any response from that house? 
A:-The traveller was quite afraid but he stood puzzled and motionless there.

6. When was the traveller perplexed?
A:-The traveller was perplexed after his second time knocking at the door in vain. He knocked at the door twice but nobody came out and he felt confused.

7. Why have the hoofs of the horse been described as ‘plunging'?
A:-The hoofs of the horse have been described as ‘plunging' because he made his horse move quickly when he left the place.

8. What is the effect created by the words ‘The silence surged softly backwards'?
A:-‘The silence surged softly backwards' indicates that it was mysteriously still again when the traveller quickly moved forward. The place became silent.

9. And his horse in the silence chomped the grasses 
Of the forest's ferny floor.
And a bird flew up out of the turret,
Above the traveller's head:

 (a) What does ‘his' refer to?
A: ‘His' refers to the traveller's.
(b) What has disturbed the bird from its nest in the turret?

A:- The knocking at the door by the traveller has disturbed the bird from its nest in the turret.

(c) Which part of the country is the traveller in?
A:- The traveller is in the hilly part of the country.

(d) What is he doing here?
A:-He is trying to call and meet the dwellers of the house.

10. But only a host of phantom listeners
That dwell in the lone house then
Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight
To that voice from the world of men:
Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair
That goes down to the empty hall,
Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
By the lonely Traveller's call.

(a) Who are the 'host of phantom listener's?
Ans:-The ghosts in that lonely house are the ‘host of phantom listeners’.

(b) What were they listening to?
Ans:-They were listening to the voice of the traveller.

(c) Whose is the 'voice from the world of men’? Explain the phrase.
Ans:-It is the traveller's voice which referred in the phrase ‘voice from the world of men’.

(d) Who stood ‘throughing the faint moonbeams on the dark stair'?
Ans:-The ghost stood ‘throughing the faint moonbeams on the dark stair.

11. Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup,
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward,
When the plunging hoofs were gone.

(a) Who are the ‘they' mentioned in these lines?
A:-The ghosts are the 'they' mentioned in these lines.

(b) Where does the sound 'of iron on stone' come from?
A:-The sound 'of iron on stone' comes from the hoofs of the horse and stony road as a result of the galloping of the horse fast.

(c) Why do you think the person is in such a hurry?
A:-Because the person wants to go away from the place as soon as possible.

12. Show how the poet has explored the theme of keeping promise in his poem, 'The Listeners.'(2022)(5 Marks-80 words)

13. What did the traveller do when he reached the lone house?(2022/3 Marks)

14. Identify the animal accompanying the traveller. (2022/1 Mark)

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