Visitation: Frequent Visitor

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I didn't really choose this poem, it kind of made me choose it. I honestly didn't a lot of the poems the first time I read them and then I would keep coming back to read this one and reading it over and over again. The more I visited, the more I liked "Visitation by Eamon Grennan. This poem is personal from the beginning. It starts in the first line by addressing "you" and while that may not be the reader, we mentally are drawn to things that refer to us specifically. We are including into this personal adventure between two people: either the two friends in the poem, or you and the author. Both relationships share an intimate moment with the geese that is not necessarily monumental but by the end of the trip, you are happy you went.
The same goes with reading the poem. The poet sets it up so the when you visit, (or in other words start reading) you stay for a while. There is a heavy use of enjambment through the lines that forces you to keep reading. For example: "I thought, a lit thing bearing nothing but the self/ we see and savor but know no more the meaning of/ than I know what in the cave of its fixed gaze/ our cat is thinking." Lines often end in a preposition and while Shakespeare would have a heart attack with ending a line in such disgrace it adds to the personal feel of the poem. It was meant to read like a personal moment, not like a perfect poem.
The poem is a conversation and even more so a memoir, something that could be found in a diary. The multiple questions at the end of the poem add to the effect of an unsure relationship between the speaker and the person during the visitation. Like the geese that fly away for the south, the speaker and the ambiguous friend do not stay forever. The geese brought the speaker and the other person together and "for a little while neither cold/ nor dark but a place of visitation, and we were in it." At the end of the poem the author uses repetition to show the differences between the visitation of the geese ans the visitation of the friendship. While the geese visitation was "gone dark... cold dark" while their visitation was "neither cold/nor dark."Their time together lightened the mood of the poem.

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