Poem we read in class. (The Portrait)

The Portrait poem is very sad. Its about a women getting beat and about her husband killing himself. Its sad how he killed himself and how she never told her son about his father. One day the boy went in the attic and found a picture of this guy. So he took it down to his mom and she ripped it into shreds without saying a word and slapped him hard and in his sixty-fourth year he can still feel his cheek burning. I think the author wrote this because he is trying to make a point. How the boy shouldn't of got treated like that. The boy didn't know who that guy was in that picture and all he wanted was to know who that guy was. I think his mom took it way to far and hurt her son. Now her son will never forget that. I didn't like the poem because I think know one should not know who there father is. They are going to want to know who there father is one of these days.