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Catholicism of Gusang aims at ‘religious ideology’ rather than ‘artistic aesthetics’. His discourse of Catholicism is developed by allusions of the Bible. He shows the world recognition as binary oppositions. Namely, these examples are ‘abstract indicators’ such as ‘love’, ‘justice’ and ‘eternity’ and ‘humble reality’ with ‘sin’, ‘greed’ and ‘injustice’. The poet extracts the concept of ‘shame’ from this, here ‘shame’ means ‘conscience.’ Gusang discourses the concept because of the corruption of reality. The raven in his series of poetry, The Raven ｢ ｣ represents the voice of the prophet who criticizes Greed and injustice of fetishism of South Korea since the 1970s. The raven’s role is to criticize the contemporary reality, as well as the poet himself. ‘The cross’ shows existential anguish dramatically. The cross is the point of contact intersecting horizontality and verticality, heaven and earth. Gusang understands the reality of this land and alleges ‘volitional subject’ “I also must go alone”. These subject stems from ‘ethical subject’. The poet speaks highly of volitional subject and the road means comprehending “the reality of the Word". Therefore, “I, smaller than a grain of sand”, will experience and testify the ‘reality’ of the world, The act of recognizing the reality means experiencing the presence of God, The poet speaks more highly of ‘ethical subject’ more than ‘lyrical subject’ and tries to match Poetry and life. Thus, he tried to reach the holistic existence. His poetry Pursued the union of ‘poetic ego’ and ‘existential ego’ and put more values on salvation of the existence than artistic salvation, thus, left big footsteps to heighten the ideology of modern korean poetry.