Your students have read Baroque poets who see death everywhere. Now they meet the poet who sees God in a hurricane — and means it literally. José María Heredia wrote "En una tempestad" in Cuba in 1822, and it's the text that opens the Romantic door in the AP Lit course. The speaker doesn't run from the storm. He stays, watches the birds flee and the sun tremble, salutes the hurricane as a giant, and then — alone with it — cries. Not from fear. From religious ecstasy. It's the first time in the A