In the phrase, “no child stirs under my withering heart” what is the explicit meaning?

a woman has died during childbirth.
a woman chose freedom from the responsibility of family.
a woman longs to be pregnant and feel love for a child.
her child has died in her sleep from a long illness.

Read the excerpt from “take the tortillas out of your poetry.” i do not believe we should have to leave out the crucial elements of our language and culture to contribute to american literature, but, unfortunately, this is a conclusion i am forced to reach. i have been writing for a quarter century, and have been a published author for eighteen years. as a writer, i was part of the chicano movement which created a new literature in this country. which type of rhetoric is used most in the excerpt to convince readers that anaya’s conclusion is accurate? an appeal based on emotion an appeal based on logic an appeal based on the author’s character an appeal based on the author’s feelings