By the end of this chapter, students will be able to:
- Read and paraphrase the poem stanza by stanza.
- Explain what, according to the poet, makes a house "haunted", and where the phantoms are met.
- Contrast the speaker and the stranger, and the poet's ghosts with traditional ghosts.
- Explain the poet's views on owning property — "title-deeds" and "mortmain".
- Interpret the images of the spirit-world, the unseen star and the bridge of light.
- Identify poetic devices — simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, imagery — and the rhyme scheme and metre.
- Answer ICSE extract-based questions with reference to context and a reasoned personal response.