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This paper investigated expressive appearance by Lee Eonjin who was called early dead genius poet. He experienced various documentary records and advanced culture from childhood. As a result, he expanded his understanding about world and elevated self-consciousness. He developed literary talent reading and recording various books. The literary talent produced original outcomes, namely Hodonggeosil. He was good at writing many poems quickly and maintained poetics of ‘Jinsi’ and ‘Gisin’ that was influenced by the teacher Lee Yonghyu. But his poems were criticized because they didn't escape reactionism from the view of the main current of literary world. Hodonggeosil was written in the crossing of his conceit and unfortunate consciousness. His unfortunate consciousness that appeared in Hodonggeosil was represented largely in two ways. One is negative attention towards the world, and the other is inner attention glancing self-consciousness. He symbolized these two attentions through the space of ‘Hodong’ and ‘Geosil’. In the space of ‘Hodong’ his attention was cynical and critical about absurd reality and the people that lived in the reality. Contrary to it, ‘Geosil’ was the space that realized subject and recovered self-consciousness. That is, ‘Geosil’ was the space of seeking after truth. To him, seeking after truth was ultimately the process of writing ‘Jinsi’. It was the way of overcoming conflict and opposition between the world and himself. But it was a pity the fact that his distinct self-consciousness was buried in the selfish pride. ‘Early dead genius poet’, ‘Haughty pride and resistance’ was implied such inner characteristics.