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Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath are the two most popular and accomplished poets of the twentieth century. They won critical acclaim as their poetry drew the attention of so many critics and scholars. They have analyzed their poetry from various perspectives. The exploration of their poetry reveals a despairing world in which the dark forces of life threaten to destroy any vestiges of redemption. Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das convey their complex states of mind. That is why there is a great deal of inner landscape in their poems. In their poetry, they use various objects of nature as objective correlatives for their mental feelings. The use of this technique gives an aura of fresh air to the world of their poetry, which is mostly obsessed with anguish and anxiety. Their poetry thematises their personal suffering, humiliation, betrayal, psychological breakdowns, debauchery and feminine oppression. Inherently nihilistic, their poetry is an attempt to evolve a symbolic order out of chaos.