Question 1
The simile in lines 1-2 (“the way he’d hold / a summons from the county”) suggests that the father regards the phone as
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The following poem was written for this course. Its speaker is a grown daughter helping her father with his new phone.
My father holds the phone the way he'd hold
a summons from the county, stiff and wary,
and speaks to it the way that he was told,
each syllable cut square, as for a notary:
5"Dear Ana, comma." No one writes dear,
I tell him, and the phone puts in the stops
itself; you needn't say them. He can't hear
me, or he won't. His voice goes low, and drops
the way it does in church. Across the table
10my own phone shivers once beside my wrist.
I do not turn it over. I'm not able,
not yet. I know already he'll insist
on signing it, as if I might not know:
"Your father, period." Then: "Did it go?"
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