"The Portrait" by Stanley Kunitz reads like a cursed and living document, timeless in its grief, pain, and conception. I can’t think of a poem, song, or story that perfectly captures the complexities of abandonment and abuse in the manner that Kunitz's poem does. While the poem may echo Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” in significance, the poem is far less an allegory than it is a haunting record of the trauma that informed Kunitz's long and storied life.
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