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This paper discussed a modern Korean poet Yi Yuk-sa from the point of view that he had been influenced by a famous German philosopher Nietzsche. Yi Yuk-sa mentioned Nietzsche's poem “Autumn” in his essay “Looks of Season”. He was the first man of letters in our country who had thought Nietzsche as a poet. In Yi Yuk-sa's masterpiece “Great Land”, we have the unfamiliar poetic word ‘Overman’. I thought this word had come from Nietzsche's ‘Ubermensch’, and another word ‘White Horse’ in this poem was connected with the French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. It was widely known that Napoleon had ridden white horse in many battlefields. Yi Yuk-sa's ‘Great Land’ also corresponds to Nietzsche's concept ‘The Earth’. Therefore Yi Yuk-sa's ‘Great Land’ is to ‘Overman’ what Nietzsche's ‘The Earth’ is to ‘Ubermensch’. In Europe, Nietzsche is called a ‘philosopher-artist’. Likewise, Yi Yuk-sa can be called a ‘thinker-poet’ in the history of modern Korean literature, for Yi Yuk-sa was a kind of poet who had often changed his historical and social thoughts into lyric poetry.