Hurricane Beulah - Nikky Finney

 

Poet Nikky Finney was born in 1957 in South Carolina. The daughter of a lawyer and teacher, Finney’s parents were both active in the Civil Rights movement and her childhood was shaped by the turmoil and unrest of the South in the 1960s and ‘70s. In an interview with the Oxford American, Finney noted: “I've never been far away from the human-rights struggle black people have been involved with in the South. That has been one of the backdrops of my entire life.” Finney’s engagement with political activism has also influenced her trajectory as a poet. Carefully weaving the personal and political, Finney’s poetry is known for its graceful, heartfelt synthesis of the two. Influenced by Lucille Clifton and Nikki Giovanni ... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikky-finney

This piece is a love letter to Nikky Finney's grandmother, Ms. Beulah.  Let's read Hurricane Beulah and analyze how Nikky Finney describes her in this piece. Consider character as--

• desire
• image
• voice
• action
• thought
• presented by the author
• conflict
• stock and flat characters