The Portrait

The poem that I choose is The Portrait. It about a women who was pregnant. Her husband killed himself when she was about to have her baby. The mom never forgave him for killing himself. She never wanted to tell her daughter how he was not even his name. Mom never wanted to ask her questions about her dad. When the girl goes to the attic she found a picture of a stranger that it was her dad. She when and show her mom the picture.When she saw it she ripped it in little pieces without saying anything. Then she slapped her really hard that she will have a mark that will always remember when she slapped her just because of the picture of her dad. She is now 64 years old and she will still remember when her mom slapped her.

I think the author wrote thinking about somebody doesn't deserve to not known your parents just because they comic suicide. No matter what they did they still deserve to know something about their parents. Nobody deserve to be slapped just because they found a picture of the parent.


I like this poem because it remind me of somebody that committed suicide during the summer. I think it wasn't fair for the family. When he was about to be a grandpa for the first time. He just Left pain for the family and even more problems. Every body in the family would think why he did it. He was about to get his GED and be a grandpa.