Walter de la Mare was a 20th century English poet best known for his poem "The Listeners". The poem describes a traveler on horseback who visits an empty house deep in a dark forest at night. Upon arriving, he knocks on the door hoping for a response but hears only the sounds of nature, leaving him confused about who or what came knocking in response. The poem creates an atmosphere of mystery and leaves things open to the reader's imagination about what listeners may have heard the traveler's call.
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Classifications of Poetry
I. Narrative Poems.
1. Tells a story. (Series of events.)
A. Ballad
1.) very short story
2.) folk product – regular people
3.) simple plot and language
4.) has dialogue
B. Metrical Tale
1.) short story in verse
2.) more descriptions
3.) poet expresses attitudes and opinions
C. Epic
1.) extremely long. (Novel length story in verse.)
2.) about national heroes, kings, great warriors, etc.
3.) elevated tone, lofty style. Language is highly poetic.
II. Lyric Poems.
1. Expresses an emotion. Does not tell a story.
2. Shares a moment – does not explain it.
3. Keys to understand – refer to “Understanding Traditional Poetry.”
a.) Logical content – what the writing actually says.
b.) Emotive content – feeling the writing produces.
A. Reflective Lyric: 99% of school poems fall in this category!!!
1.) Emotional response through recall/ reflection (past tense.)
2.) Usually calm
B. Elegy:
1.) Expresses grief at death.
2.) Usually dignified.
3.) Formal language and structure.
C. Ode:
1.) Any sustained lyric poem of exalted theme.
2.) Often commemorating some important event.
3.) Dignified formal language / irregular structure
D. Sonnet:
1.) Dignified subject matter
2.) FIXED FORM !
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III. Dramatic Poetry.
A. Dramatic Narrative: Tells a story by the person involved.
B. Dramatic Monologue: One speaking to others on stage. They listen, character speaks.
C. Soliloquy: One character on stage speaking alone (to himself.)
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As with narrative, there are "elements" of poetry that we can focus on to enrich our understanding of a particular poem or group of poems. These elements may include, voice, diction, imagery, figures of speech, symbolism and allegory, syntax, sound, rhythm and meter, and structure. While we may discuss these elements separately, please keep in mind that they are always acting simultaneously in a story. It is difficult, for example, to discuss voice without talking about imagery, sound, meter, diction and syntax. Above all, these elements reveal something about the poem's "theme," meaning, or function.
Voice: Speaker and Tone-
As DiYanni notes, tone refers to the poet's "implied attitude toward its subject. Tone is an abstraction we make from the details of a poem's language: the use of meter and rhyme; the inclusion of certain kinds of details and exclusion of other kinds; particular choices of words and sentence pattern, of imagery and of figurative language" (479). A poem could convey reverence toward its subject, or cynicism, fear, awe, disgust, regret, disappointment, passion, monotony, etc. Tone has a great deal to do with meaning, for a description of a parent would be radically different depending on a poet's attitude toward that parent.
Diction, Imagery, Figures of Speech, Symbolism and Allegory-
Simply put, diction refers to word choice and is intimately related to imagery and figures of speech because a poet chooses a word to achieve a certain sensory, emotional, or intellectual effect. Choosing "wandered," for example, suggests something different than, say, "walked around," "shuffled," "drifted," "floated," etc., for each word suggests a different attitude, image, or connection. Your job is to explore the possibilities, always broadening the meaning and linking it with other words and images. For example, placing words in new contexts creates metaphors, for the word suggests one meaning and the context another.
As noted earlier, word choices creates images, the "concrete representation of a sense impression, feeling, or idea. Images may invoke our sight, hearing, sense of smell and taste, and tactile perceptions." Imagery refers to a pattern of related details. When images form patterns of related details that convey an idea or feeling beyond what the images literally describe, we call them metaphorical or symbolic. The details suggest one thing in terms of another. For example, images of light often convey knowledge and life, while images of darkness suggest ignorance or death. This leap from one image to its symbolic counterpart is based on an interpretive act and must be done in context. For example, white is usually associated with purity, cleanliness, and virginity, but in Moby Dick the great whale is white and suggests absolute evil, but the use that symbolic color is consistent within the novel. Figures of speech refer to special kinds of language use.
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2. CONTENTS
o About The Author
o Popular Poem Written By The Author
o Description Of The Poem
o About The Poem
o Views On The Poem
o Vocabulary
o Question and Answers
o Collage
o Thank You
3.
4. Walter de la Mare was born on 25th April 1873,
His father, James Edward Delamaere, was an official of the
Bank of England. His mother, Lucy Sophia (Browning)
Delamare,
He was educated in London at St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
School, which he left at age 16.
He was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is
probably best remembered for his work for children and for his
poem "The Listeners". He also wrote some subtle
psychological horror stories,
5. Some one
Some One came knocking ,
At my wee small door.
Some One came knocking,
I am sure, sure, sure.
I listened, I opened,
I looked to left and right.
But nought there was a-stirring
In the still dark night.
Only the busy beetle,
Tap tapping the wall
Only from the forest,
The screech owl call.
Only the cricket whistling
While the dewdrops fall..
So, I know not who came knocking,
At all, at all, at all.
6. The Listeners creates an atmosphere of mystery, eeriness and
strange wonder. A lot of is left to the reader imagination.
The poem invites all the young minders to accompany the
lonely traveller on his strange traveller on his strange visit to a
solitary castle, deep within a dark forest.
The setting is perfect for a ghost story to unfold and there is a
reference to the “Listeners” who listen silently to the
traveller’s fervent call.
7. • In this poem 'The Listener' speaks about a traveller on
horseback, who had visited an empty house in a forest,
• On a moonlight night. He knocked on the door hoping against
hope to get an expected response. To his utter dismay, the
only listeners were a host of ghosts. Nobody responded to his
voice. This poem now tell us about his journey.
11. Questions And Answers
Q1) In which mood the poet has written this poem?
Q2) Do you think the traveller was scared?
Q3) Put yourself in the traveller’s shoes. How would
you feel in that house?
Q4) Do you think the traveller was scared?
Q5) Do you think ghost were listening to the traveller
voice?
Q6) Do you believe in supernatural . If yes, tell me
your experience or your opinion to support your
answer?
