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This study examined Sin Dongyeop’s representative epic poem,『Geumgang』, and Jiānghé’s The Sun and its Reflected Rays and found some of the similarities between them as follows. First of all, they did not describe the narrative objectively. Sin Dongyeop’s epic poem depicts the process that a person of mean birth becomes a hero whereas Jiānghé’ s tells us the process that a divine being is becoming a human being. Second, the narratives about those heroes’ overcoming of hardships all develop towards death. The main characters go through the journey of hardships not remaining in the conflicts or ordeals they are in but deciding to fight to resolve them and set off to travel. Third, they take different sorts of symbols as the sky and the sun. In Sin Dongyeop’s poem, ‘the sky’ is fixed as the absolute value that is not always seen but we want to believe in and pursue whereas in Jiānghé’s poem, ‘the sun’ shows dynamic aspects with constant generation and change. Fourth, about time, both of them develop centered around the past. In the poems where the narrative develops, this may work as rather a hindrance factor that gets in the way of their flow. Despite that, they cross-match the present time, too, so the writers’ subjectivity and lyricism give an intervening function. Fifth, it is about the matter of persons in terms of the context like the viewpoint. In Sin Dongyeop’s poem, the first and third persons are included complexly, but in Jiānghé’s, there is no distinction like that, and all are substituted to the third person like ‘he’ or ‘she’.