Include "Wristwatch" which relate to the battle of Monte Casino.

Famous Bengali Writer on whom WW2 had a profound experience and was reflected in some of his poetry.


The war had a strong effect on the poet. The dismal prospect of the war—the death and destruction—had caused such a stir in him that he started writing poems on melancholic theme. His poem collection "satti tara’r timir" (Darkness of the Seven Stars) contains the poems influenced by the world gone awry due to world’s geopolitical conflicted even though Bengal was spared from the wrath of the war.

The poem collection "bonolota sen" has in it some thirty phenomenal poems. The collection was published in December 1942 when a vicious war was still raging all over the world. The poet was very sensitive to what was going on in the world during 1939 through 1945—when World war II was being fought between the Germans and the Allied force. Even though the vicious war had spared bulk of Indian subcontinent, it had a major effect on Jibanananda Das because he composed some forty poems in a collection call "satti tara’r timir" (Darkness of the Seven Star), which were mostly written on melancholic theme. It was published in 1948—a year after India was partitioned into India and Pakistan