The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the meaning of region in Sim Yeon-soo’s poems. He can be referred to as problematic objects who shared converging and diverging points in looking into and understanding the problems of the modernity reflected in poetry. This paper tries to apply the locality in broad sense to his poetic works based on the efforts to resist diaspora in various lights. Sim’s view of poetry is characterized by regional attitude. The meaning of region can be called the spirit of nationalism, and Sim’s poems are the typical showcase of it. The good examples are poetic attributes as the spirit of the undetermined native place. And his sense of hometown based on the emigration is a symbol of diaspora. The simple formality deriving from Sim’s nationalism is sometimes accompanied by the lack of aesthetic realms. Nonetheless, his spirit and works prove our colonial surroundings and the typical pattern of living in unreasonable modern times by performing effects.
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