Analysis of "Black Rook in Rainy Weather"
             Sylvia Plath was a remarkable twentieth century American poet whose poetry focused on
             depression, suicide and death, savage imagery, and self-destruction. Examining the life of Sylvia
             Plath helps her readers better understand her poetry because many of the imagery and attitudes
             in her poetry are based on her life experiences. Plath was born on October 27, 1932, daughter
             of Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her father taught biology and German at Boston University and died
             on November 2, 1940, when Sylvia was only eight years old. In 1956 she married the poet,
             Ted Hughes; their first child, Frieda, was born on April 1, 1960, their second, Nicholas, on
             January 17. 1962. In October 1962 the marriage fell apart, and they separated. Sylvia made
             several unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide, and on February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath died
             by her own hand (Hall 1-10). In "Black Rook in Rainy Weather," Plath paints a picture of a
             woman's dreary and perhaps depressed life, which contains its occasional moments of
             "Black Rook in Rainy Weather," written in 1956, describes how the ordinary things in life are
             the things that make life worth living. The setting of the poem is outdoors on a dismal, but quite
             ordinary, rainy day. The speaker does not seemed to be concerned with the actual landscape
             surrounding her, but is lost in her own thoughts. The narrator, who is walking warily through
             "this dull, ruinous landscape" (lines 22-24), "trekking stubborn through this season of fatigue,"
             (lines 33-34) seems to be living a bleak existence. Her life is mundane, and she is seeking
             splendor, or to have "the sight set on fire in my eye" (lines 6-7). She seems to be living in a very
             dark world and her only joys are flashes of brightn
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