reading response to fast speaking woman and borderland

    
                     
      If you read both Poems you'll  see the primary focus is on identity. Speaking woman is a passage that shows the identity of woman in society, while Borderland is about someone being accepted into society. They both are about the life style and ways women are viewed in the society we live in till present.
      Fast speaking woman is a prime example of poetry's influence to the social life of women,  or even more be viewed has a woman's influence in society. Anne Waldman notes a little bit of herself in the poem. The world we live in today is dominated by males ,who run everything in the society while woman are seen has the support system and should take the backseat. The author's style of writing is more like a chant, basically about female emancipation.
    While Borderland on the other hand paints a moving portrait for the search of ones identity in a world that refuses to allow one. The physical borderland between the U.S and Mexico helps create the psychological fence that a person is put on when they are denied a culture and a place in society. Language is also seen as a barrier of identity that segregates an individual. The restrictions placed  by cultural institutions  to protect is aimed to suffocate. The culture and  church  insist that woman are subservient to males. Woman  have to fight for their voices to be heard but this is based on the  time line the two  poems was written during the  early 1960's as a poet foremost but with a lifetime involvement as well in creating and caring for poetic communities. Both poets are fighting for the voice and identity  of  women in the society and to make awareness of the borderland restrictions confining us.