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Looking back on the preceding study of postwar literature, this paper tried to raise some questions about the dilemma of the post-war literature study and the setting of the concept and scope of “post-war” literature that we are currently dealing with, and put forward a premise of the post-war literature studies. The concept of post-war literature is very difficult, complicated and must be closely examined in Korean circumstances because of the long truce. By far, Postwar poetry has generally studied in the context of desolation, nihilism, anxiety, and death consciousness. Against this backdrop, this paper attempts to expand the horizon of the study on the postwar poetry by looking at it in the context of renewal, new hope, reconstruction, and regeneration. This study considered ‘the postwar period as a starting point’, reviewed the period in terms of ‘productivity’, and tried to identify the ‘newness’ that Korean modern postwar poetry desperately and enthusiastically facilitates, and reveal the identity that contemporary writers of the time seek to establish. Considering that the military regime and the cultural dark ages has lasted for some time since the 1960s, the creative consciousness or productivity of this period cannot in fact have achieved the purpose originally expected. This paper examined the propensity in the overall post-war literature and discussed its specific examples through works by Shin Dong-yup and Jeon Bong-gun. This paper noted the perception of ‘neutral zone’ and ‘unfinished postwar’ in their work. What could be found in their works was their imagination of a new space featuring cosmopolitanism and anarchistic ideals. The spatial imagination of the trans-boundary ideal of pacifism from their works, may imply an objection to negative realities and political situations of those days. The literary response of poets during this period is an important reference point in solving the current problems facing our society

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