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This article, focusing on orientation toward children’s mind forming the basis of Yoon Dong-ju’s poems, was intended to look for the children’s mind first beginning from children’s verses and through all the ordinary verses. First, the moment that Yoon Dong-ju got to write was examined, and it was predicted to be due to his consciousness of and interest in children. His literary works in which brothers or children appear the basis of such prediction. The speaker in his literary works sometimes views children as poor existence in the miserable age or recognizes them as imprudent existence. Such recognition sometimes made him view them as the targets to be illuminated. As an important list of the children’s mind indicating in Yoon Dong-ju’s children’s verses, first, there is nature-friendly children’s mind. The nature that children’s mind of his children’s verses represent is mostly heavenly elements, all of which contain the meaning of the world he is heading for and the meaning of longing. Such motives of children’s verses is accepted in his ordinary poems, representing the same symbolic meanings. In addition, ‘a bird’ frequently appear in his ordinary poems, which seems to result from the fact that he expanded and accepted the children’s mind moving toward the heavenly world. Second, there is children’s mind representing instinctive yearning. The subject of yearning in children’s verses is mostly mother, a sister, father and a hometown. Such yearning and the subject of yearning are equally accepted in his ordinary poems. Meanwhile, mother or motherhood is represented as ‘breast’and also gave the meaning of eternal life water and limitless love. Third, there is future-oriented children’s mind looking for hope in the dark. Hope was represented as ‘light’, ‘dawn’, and ‘baby’, and similarly accepted even in the ordinary poems. In here, there are poems that propose hope in the light-oriented way, but there are also poems saying more direct and actual hope in which the poetic speaker actively shows hope. Through this study, it was found that one of the reason Yoon Dongju’s poems have been loved till now is that they are based on the instinct children’s mind for which men basically head.