Test Academy | Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows: Are You There? My father and I shove back the furniture to the four walls of the sitting room then lie on the carpet wearing blindfolds, his left hand holding my left hand Are you there, Moriarty? he enquires, before tightening (I imagine) the grip on his rolled-up copy of yesterday’s Times. There is only one possible answer to that. I give it while rolling away to the side but still clasping his hand, still in range, and sure enough he manages a direct hit. Now it is my turn, but the moment I lift my weapon I realise there is no reason to continue I can tell from his stillness, and the chill and stiffness of his fingers, he has been dead for a good while already. Andrew Motion In the last stanza of the poem, The Poet Is Sure Of His Father’s Death., The Poet Imagines His Father To Be Dead, The Poet Does Not Know Whether His Father Is Alive, The Poet Wildly Guesses That His Father Is Dead

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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows:
Are You There?
My father and I shove back the furniture
to the four walls of the sitting room
then lie on the carpet wearing blindfolds,
his left hand holding my left hand
Are you there, Moriarty? he enquires, before tightening (I imagine) the grip on his rolled-up copy of yesterday’s Times. There is only one possible answer to that.
I give it while rolling away to the side but still clasping his hand, still in range, and sure enough he manages a direct hit. Now it is my turn, but the moment I lift my weapon I realise there is no reason to continue I can tell from his stillness, and the chill and stiffness of his fingers, he has been dead for a good while already.
Andrew Motion

In the last stanza of the poem,

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The Poet Is Sure Of His Father’s Death.
The Poet Imagines His Father To Be Dead
The Poet Does Not Know Whether His Father Is Alive
The Poet Wildly Guesses That His Father Is Dead

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