One of the important characteristics of the ethos of the people of Bangladesh that runs trough their cultural consciousness is the mood of resistance. The mood of resistance and the pride with which they assert the value and dignity of the human self, a salient feature of the contemporary poetry of Bangladesh, can be traced back to the old Bangla literature. The Manasa Mangal Kavya, one of the earliest epics, shows a human hero holding out with fortitude against the tyranny and relentless fury of the gods.

Contemporary Bangla verses found poetic expressions in the love the poet lavished on the land, in the mood of anger and defiance, in the use of myth, in the portrayal of hopes and frustrations, in the sympathy that went out to meet the heroic people in the street.

This section offers a compilation of poems on Liberation War, which depicts the anger, defiance and resistance in Contemporary Bangla Poetry.