In a well-developed paragraph with a topic sentence, 2-3 supporting details and
concluding sentence, explain how the poet develops mood in the poem "The
Listeners." There should be at least 2-3 examples from the poem to support our
thinking.

The topic sentence for the paragraph below is underlined:

Explanation:

The mood in the poem "The Listeners" is eerie and morbidly fascinating. This mood of morbidity is developed by the use of staple Gothic imagery of full moon and a gloomy forest along with the ominous refrain of ‘Is there anybody there?’. These images create a harrowing effect of fascination while still inducing a horror of the unknown in the poem as it develops around a mysterious traveler and supernatural elements as in 'But only a host of phantom listeners' and in the lines 'Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house,  From the one man left awake'

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