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 an expression to the poet's own anguish because suffering has become the central fact of historical and personal existence" Initiation p.143. This is what she...
received numerous of awards and recognitions for her outstanding poetry and writings. Some of these awards include a Pulitzer Prize for poetry from her 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 and personal crisis of their own like her.