Peom paragraph-The Portrait

This poem is about a mother who was pregnant when her husband killed himself. After that the mother had much hatred against her husband for leaving her all alone with a newborn. The mother couldn't let go of what happened to her and never forgave her husband for what he did. I think the author wrote it because they might of had something like that happened to them when they were small or they knew someone who that happened to. I liked this poem because of the way its written. I really liked the part when it says, "In my sixty-fourth year I can feel my cheek still burning." I like it cause it doesn't really mean they can feel it but it means they can still remember how it all happened and what they were feeling at the time it happened and how they felt after they got slapped.