The Stars of the Fatherland

This work is a culmination of the poet’s creative attempts with various perspectives and consistent explorations. The poems have a decadent and nihilistic tone the way postwar poems tend to have, a flaring insight, the scars of the painful history of the country, and affection toward suffering common people. What is most notable in these poems is that the affirmation of the fatherland and its history is based on the writer’s honest and sincere reflections on his past experiences. Abstaining from showy descriptions and grandiloquence, these simplistic poems are permeated with deep confidence in the history and people of Korea.