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This abstract is about the aspect and meaning of a woman's’ body in women's poems after 1990s mainly written from the texts of Kim Yeon-hee and Na Hee-deok. In order to research how the body in women's poems is reenacted and what message the poets want to send through it, I read the two poets' poems on the basis of French feminist Kristeva's theories of 'speaking subject' and ‘meaning formation'. According to Kristeva, ‘speaking subject' means the subject is in the process of forming the meaning. The subject in the process is flowing, heterogeneous, and ceaselessly changing. She explains this using a sign, ‘chora'. ‘Chora', which is related to maternal body(womb), is the place where the body's instinct and mental impulses are aroused and its meanings are formed. The maternal body should be abject in order to have ‘speaking subject' be seated in the symbolic order. ‘Meaning formation' is fulfilled when the symbolic order is renewed by abjection of maternal body. In the poems of Kim Yeon-hee and Na Hee-deok, a mother's body is not shown as a proper human body. Kim Yeon-hee expresses the desire of resistance and violation against the hypocrisy and violence of men by showing the marginal women under the rule as disgusting objects. In her poems, women are implied as the by-products of bodies such as a corpse or filth. It hints that a woman's body can be transferred as a threat to the patriarchy society. Rather Na Hee-deok seeks her identity from nature. In her poems, the nature is the mother body embracing others. She emphasizes the positive and creative power coming only from women. It's the strategy for both emphasizing the women's own superior character and escaping the established thought of femininity.