Billy Collin's "The Listener"

What do you feel the theme is in Billy Collin's poem "The Listener". What I thought it was, was shot down by the Professor and it has to be re-written.

Hi Shawn,
Hopefully you contribute a bit more before you ask a question? I'm not sure what your writing background is. I doubt many others do either here. If you could provide us with what you thought the theme was first, maybe we can help a bit more?

Also, I'm not sure if you are allowed to post things from other sites, but you could write the poem here. If it is this poem: tinyurl.com/L1sten3r, then maybe the "theme" could be about life/being passive/love/nobility/nature/etc.. There's a bunch of things that a poem can signify. It all depends on what you take from a poem, at least that's how I see it. Depending on what type of theme you need, you could also talk about the sensory detail in the poem. It's up to you~

I agree, it wuld be nice to have you post your own ideas. hat way it won't end up being that you post someone else's ideas as your own. I can help like this, though:

when I read the poem, it makes me think of what Deepak Chopra calls the "silent witness." I do not know if that is what Collins meant, but it is what I think of.

you can google: "silent witness" deepak chopra

:-)