orn at a crossroads. This represents the unification of a diverse background where clear isolated association with just one background is not possible. This makes the speaker feel alienated from their true background. They want to live in the present, where they can identify with what they are presently, an U.S. American. This doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate their roots, because they know it is what made them and what will continue building upon them, time after time.I think this work reflects late Chicano poetry. The reason because it expresses alienation but acceptance from what they are alienated. They can’t relate to their parents past but they realize it is what made them and they will pass it on to their children and so forth. This poem doesn’t reflect the traditional fear of losing touch with ones background; on the contrary, they accept it and come to grounds with the situation. The speaker realizes how important family is and what and what it means to be Latino. A Latino isn’t just one background; it is composed of diverse quantities.Although the “Ending Poem” makes reference to the past and how it relates to them, the speaker seems more secure of themselves and this characterizes the more modern works of Chicano poets. There is also no opposition to assimilating in the society they live in, which characterizes it as being a late poetry work. “This is not the place where I was born” also seemed to have a similar theme as in reference to your roots and family. This poem on the other hand deals with not being able to live things as their parents did. The speaker finds that life is different in their land when compared to what their mother told them it used to be like. They can’t see or live things presently, as did their parents and grandparents. At first the speaker begins by recognizing that they were born in Puerto Rico, But after they compare the differ...
