Jung Ho Seung is the writer of medium standing in Korean literature who has been composing poems since he took the rostrum over 30 years from now. However, the existing study for his works is only in the process of the beginning for his writing period. Therefore, this study is limited to the poems only from the first term of his works, and research his recognition of reality in his poems and the poetic feedback to reality and the character of his feedback from his early works.
First chapter contains the detail content of reality which is recognized by the poet's viewpoint. Jung ho seung started his writing in 1970s which was the period of an upheaval socially and politically. It seemed to have extremely rapid growth in economy in this period, however, the truth is, that it was the time of that the people in Korean society have the miserable lives of being neglected by the materialism of city and inhumanity. Hereupon, Jung ho seung attempts to awake their consciousness showing them in the concrete the life of the people of lower class and the alienation from society. At the same time, his attempt is not limited to showing reality, he extends the range of cognition of reality to the political ordeals in Korean modern age. The root of the ordeals becomes known by his poems mentioned Japanese imperialism, Korean War, dictatorial government.
In Second chapter, his reaction to the reality is searched. He recognizes the reality as a tragedy, he refuses to be resigned and frustrated and try to give positive message of possibility of recovery to people. In his poems, the images of snow and star are shown frequently and he expresses the hope through the terms. Snow represents purity of white and star represents a source of light. Specially snow, it is not used as the simple allegory, the meaning of the term is modified in each poem. It becomes powerful mark when massing the snow to build the snowman.
As he made it clear through the book 〈Bansi〉, he aim at composing simple poets for people to understand easily and reject to make esoteric poem. So, he uses the general expression for anybody to understand with no difficulty. His poems show inheriting the Korean traditional rhythm and modifying it to appeal the message stronger.
Third chapter is about the character of his reaction to the reality. His poems are based on sadness and the sadness are about sympathy which is universal feeling and also Han(grief) which is the feeling in Korean people. The poet tried not to avoid the sadness, and accept it and paradoxically he finds hope and comfort at the edge of sadness. The combination of Christianity and humanism becomes Messianism and the sense of scapegoat and it is discussed which is the foundation of his works. Additionally reconfirming Christian love and forgiveness are the basis of his poems. Through Humanism of Christianity, jung ho seung hopes to live in balanced life of communality in the negative reality.