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- Setting
- Theme
- Imagery
- De La Mare provides a great deal of detail about the setting, even in the first few lines. He says that the traveler knocks on a moonlit door revealing that it is night. Soon after De La Mare writes the forest's ferny floor, which tells the reader that the poem is set in a forest. By putting the house in a forest as well as making it night De La Mare creates an eerie and mysterious setting.
- Symbolism
- The theme of 'The listeners' is ghostly. By using language such as phantom listeners De La Mare implies that the house is haunted. The listeners are most likely ghost that live in the house. When the traveler asks a question the ghosts don't reply. By referring to the ghosts as listeners De La Mare implies that they hear everything but don't respond.
- Speaker
- The main image that De La Mare provides is the lush forest full of many plants and trees. The reader can imagine an old eerie house in the middle of the forest, the house is lonely is far away from everything.
- Purpose
- The bird flying out of the turret symbolizes that the traveler has disturbed the peace. The horse symbolizes the animal kingdom, it does not sense the same strangeness as the traveler and simply eats the grass in peace.
- In The Listeners the speaker is the poet himself, Walter De La Mare. The poem is not coming from the travelers point of view and instead is told by De La Mare. He creates a mysterious, ghostly atmosphere by not explaining why the traveler is at the house or the importance of the house. The reader is left with many questions about the poem such as: why are the ghosts haunting the house? And What is the traveler doing there?
- The Listeners shows a unique perspective of silence, when the traveler speaks he is answered with the hush of the ghosts. The ghosts in the house don't reply but the traveler can sense their presence in the silence. The quiet of the house is haunting and eerie.
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