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Sylvia Plath was an American poet of the post-world war period whose poetical works strongly reflect existentialist themes emphasizing individual freedom, responsibility, and the search for meaning in a seemingly bleak and absurd world. Kamala Das, belonged to a period of patriarchal order in India, when women had to move on, in the stereotypical roles of a daughter, wife or a mother irrespective of the kind of education,any recognition or the society they lived in. Both Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das, despite their different socio-cultural backgrounds and tensions, explored diverse themes of women experiences that are deeply rooted in existential concerns raised by female experience and societal constraints. Both the poets dealt with issues of identity, alienation, sexuality and the search for freedom, within the confinement of their respective patriarchal structures. This study is an attempt to highlight the existential concerns in both the poets on the basis of comparative and thematic analysis of a few poems .