ThompsonChicano Literature7 April 2000 The Beauty of Poetry I chose to analyze two poems in this essay. These are the “Ending Poem” and “this is not the place where I was born”. Both were chosen from the book Currents from the Dancing River Book. I found these two books to contain similar themes and both seem to be of a modern genre. These poems deal with family and the roots that connect them to the past. Both recognize that they themselves are disassociated with their past although they still acknowledge where they come from. I find the theme present in these two poems to be a very common theme in Chicano poetry, especially modern ones. While reading both made poems I found that both made reference to not belonging to their native lands but at the same time they acknowledge they are connected to their roots. Both Poems seem to exhibit concern over not receiving credit for their background, they seem to show a mood of being victimized and looked down upon because of their diverse background.The “Ending Poem” I s about a person recognizing what they are and where they are descended from. They acknowledge their diverse back ground but recognize that they are one thing, “ a child of the Americas” ( Morales, Line two). A child of the Americas meaning they come from every part of the continent, they have a diverse background. This speaker realizes how many different women from so many different places have been involved in them descending to present day. They let this be known when they say, “ I am a child of many mothers” (Morales, 556). I found that this person feels alienated from their past but at the same time they come close to it, although they know they can’t return to the past. The past is too far away to be accessed and they must settle for what is in the present not in the past. They make this clear when mentioned that they were b...
