Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. She was an American poet known under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. Her most known works are the poems <em>Daddy </em>and Lady Lazarus as well as the novel <em>The Bell Jar</em>. On some of her poems the oppression of women and the poet's struggle to find her voice is shown. This is the reason we can say she is a feminist as not a lot of women were brave enough to show this.
Adrienne Rich was a well known poet too. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1929. She wrote extensively on sexuality and feminism, this in a more explicit way. In 1980 she wrote an essay named <em>Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence</em>, here she condemned the disempowerment of women and the society that promoted it.
