In a patriarchal society however, a woman is hardly heard; often her silence is taken for granted as her inability to speak. The silence is more of an imposition of constraints on her free expression; the subaltern position of muteness which was referred to by Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak as the 'subaltern cannot speak'. Like wise her voice is also not her own; either its subdued or silenced or given an expression but under male censure. In Indian English literature, feminine voices are few and far between, more so in the genre of Poetry. Indian English Poetry written by women crossed the threshold of modernity to emerge as a bold expression of the personal and psychological dilemmas and experiences of being a woman. The present paper critically analyses Indian English Women's Poetry starting from the renderings of Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu to the modern poetess