The Listeners by Walter de la Mare reveals to its readers that the place of a man in the universe is only a smaller portion and that there it’s greater than they are and they have little to connect to the natural world. The unknown traveler seen traveling to the abandoned house inhabited by ghosts foretells how a man in the universe has little knowledge of the existence of a wider pool of elements in existence. It goes ahead and reveals to its readers that they cannot always get the answers they are looking for and they have to accept that's the mystery of the land and universe they seemingly live in. Humans have the desire to see a detailed understanding of a lot of occurrences;