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The aim of this study is to clarify the signification of 'hometown' in Lee Yook-sa's poems. From the mid 1930s to the early 1940s, Lee Yook-sa had showed the recognition and insight of real-life situation and the desire to cope with severe realities in combination by dint of 'hometown[고향]' in his poems. In his poems, 'hometown' was both a symbol and a representation that had been alternated or confused with his childhood/adult age, premodernity/modernity, past/present/future in time, his ideological faith/awareness of a reality/consciousness of existence. Most importantly, he had strongly showed the desire of renewing his hometown from the perspective of socialism. In this respect, the signification of 'hometown' in Lee Yook-sa's poems was different from those of poems written by other poets in 1930s. Accordingly, the signification of 'hometown' was so generated in Lee Yook-sa's poems.