Sylvia Plath was a remarkable twentieth century American poet. Her poetry focused on depression, aspects on suicide, death, savage imagery, self-destruction and painful feelings of women. Plath attempts to exorcise the oppressive male figures that haunted her life served as one of the fundamental themes in her poetry. Her poetry is a good example on how “suffering and transformation could be within traditional poetic contexts” (Initiation p.142). She also believed that a poem “must give …showed first 75 words of 745 total…

…showed last 75 words of 745 total…book Collected Poems. In 1955, her most memorable year, she received the Dylan Thomas Honorable Mention for the “Parallax”. She also received, the Glaslock award, the Marjorie Hope Nicholson Prize, and many more. Overall, Sylvia Plath was a sad, eccentric, mentally depressed, yet, a brilliant artist of all time. Though her poetry, she brings the readers to an amazing experience as if they can relate to a personal crisis of their own like her. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**