Describe the poet’s feeling when he started the poem.


Walter De La Mare has unique (अनोखा)contribution (देन) to English poetry. He can create an effective and haunting atmosphere. In creating such situation, he imagines delicately and fancifully. The poet himself becomes a story teller like Martha. The poem has been written in a reminiscent (स्मृति उद्दीपक) mood. The poet goes back to the world of his childhood and, shows how happy he was then. He longs to go back to the past. This shows his love for wonder and fantasy. This is feeling of the poet.