Kathy Fagan- Visitation

Kathy Fagan’s Visitation, is a poem with a lot of symbolism that can easily be disregarded as irrelevant because of lack of attention to minor details. The poem expresses a sense of an epiphany, a moment of truth. It speaks about both the arrival (visitation) and the departure of something or someone. Everyone and everything dies; nothing last forever. The Visitation is and should be treated as a special moment, for it only last a while.

I consider Visitation a deeply felt poem because when I read it I envision different scenes in which a visitation occurs. Referring to Kathy Fagan, I can understand why she would write a poem as such. Its as if she’s conveying her own life in the poetry and trying to hide it all at once. I view the Visitation as a poem that speaks out about how every little thing in this life, in our life is a visitation; A visitation that reminds us that we exist. Though sometimes we tend to ignore certain things that occ