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Poetry of the young poets in 2000s shows a more favorable tendency on rhetoric of allegory implying the era impossible to embody totality and Utopian world, not on rhetoric of satire associated with Korean political situation from 1960s to 1980s. This thesis was intended to explain an allegorical aspect of Young Poets in 2000s and its rhetoric meaning by researching poetry of Kim Jung-il, Kim Sung-kyu, Hwang Sung-hee, Song Ki-young who started from 2000s and actively used allegorical rhetoric. An allegory of the young poets started from 2000s shows common features as follows. First, a short narrative is built in a single poem. A short narrative placed in a poem has a single storyas a kind of fable style. Second, constituents in a narrative have different meaning behind. An allegory appeared by narrative constituents indicates meaning indirectly to modern society and reality. Third, allegorical meaning from the constituents in religion, myths or tales intends collects as symbolic sense while intending totality and universality. On the contrary, an allegory of the young poets in 2000s shows that meaning of the constituents scatters as fragmentary form and does not intend totality or symbolic sense. The reason why allegoric meaning of the constituents is fragmentary is that modern society loses universality and totality, and it has particularity and fragmentary specialty. Fourth, while an allegory of the young poets in 2000s recalls pain, tragic nature of modern society and‘this place-reality’, it does not present a prospect for Utopian world beyond reality. Fifth, an allegory of the young poets in 2000s shows gloom and despair of narrative maximizing tragic nature in life which death is inevitable in modern society as major emotions, rather than criticism against modern society. Like this, allegorical rhetoric frequently used by the young poets in 2000s presents only narrative of closed worlds locked in modern society and inside of real world. Because capital violence and the ruling order of modern society govern most parts of life as invisible form, not by visible form, Utopian world in order to overcome hostile reality and show is absent. Different from rhetoric of satire actively used when political situation to be overcame is premised, rhetoric of allegory indicates life agony in the unavoidable modern society.