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is a concentration of Jeun, Bong Geun's poetical journey which shows the artistic sublimation obtained after a long searching and the new consciousness or the transcendental world view of one's self existence. It is shown that 'the stone' is not just the part of the nature, but a symbol which recalls the scar of the Korean War and the historical consciousness. And moreover, it proves the existence through the trauma, the artistic sublimation, and the soaring of the new image of existence. The presence of himself which Jeun encounters through the stone is a tragic being who experienced war, a refugee from North Korea, and a original being with the eager desire of the home instinct. After a long process of 'the darkness' and 'the vanishment', the artistic sublimation that flourished with the gorgeous rich coloured flower is a manifestation of the poet's consciousness of life which makes constant effort to create a new vitality. The soaring of existence rise above to the heavenly world not through the grave of the earthly stone, but the ‘sound of the flute’ and the new golden lucid image. Showing the existence as a permanent present, the vitality of 'the stone' unifies the past(the childhood), the present(the war experience), and the future(the transcendence). It is Jeun's recovery which the stone is based on, so it is sublimated and, further more, overcame by the artistic sublimation and the soaring of existence. These sublimation and the soaring is heading for the ideal world. And the new image reflects the poet's spiritual freedom. The transcendental world of Jeun is the pure world before the war, and also it is the world of returning home by going back to the nature. It is the intense aspiration of the poet for the ideal world which is infeasible, and he perpetually tries to reach that world by the transcendence.