"The Black Finger"
- Angelina Grimke 

           
            In “The Black Finger” the author Angelina Grimke uses imagery to express her thoughts about nature and tree shaped finger as she questions their shapes but still admires them and call them beautiful.
            “/I have just seen a beautiful thing/ slim and still/ Against a gold, gold sky, / A straight cypress/ Sensitive/ Exquisite, /. In these lines the author talks about a cypress tree being so beautiful and compares it to gold. “/A black finger/ Pointing upwards. /why, beautiful, still finger are /you black? / And why are you pointing /upwards? /”. Also in these lines she talks about the finger how it can face upwards like the tree and a beautiful creation although she questions the finger facing upwards. 
            Grimke doesn’t go into much details about anything in the poem as the poem is short and to the point. There is not a lot of rhyme and details in the poem but A black finger pointing upwards can suggest of disapproval of something or point to God which is unclear. 

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