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 770 total…

…showed last 75 words of 770 total…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 and personal crisis of their own like her. Works Cited: 1.“Plath, Sylvia”. The World Book Encyclopedia. 1976 2.“Sylvia Plath Biography”. November 18, 2000. http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/7327/boheme/plath.html 3.Rosenblatt, Jon. Sylvia Plath; The Poetry of Initiation. 1979.