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The aim of this study is to explore the response of the Korean poetry to the special situation under the Japanese rule in Korea and the aspects of the major Korean poets' views of Nature and life in their poetry during this period through the material 'Nature'. They divided life in their poems into four types: realistic life, aesthetic life, instinctive life, and transcendental life and the properties of Nature in them related to human life are as follows. First, it can be said that the relation between speakers' realistic life and Nature is that these speakers approach to Nature and the reality. The speakers of Kim, So-Wol, Oh, Jang-Hwan, Lee, Yook-Sa, Yoon, and Dong-Ju in their poetry are highly interested in realistic life and Nature. Second, when it comes to the relation between speakers' aesthetic life and Nature in poetry, speakers approach to Nature and try to avoid the reality. Although the speakers of Jung, Ji-Yong, Kim, Young-Ryang, Park, Mok-Wol, and Jo, Ji-Hoon in their poetry are beyond the reality, they are interested in Nature with the aesthetic eye. Third, if we consider the relation between speakers' instinctive life and Nature, there is a tendency that speakers try to escape from Nature and the reality. The speakers of Lee, Yong-Ak, Noh, Chun-Myung, Lee, Sang-Hwa's seem to have in common in that they tend to escape from Nature and the reality and this tendency to escape can be explained from the frustration in instinctive life. Fourth, as for the relation between speakers' transcendental life and Nature, we can see that speakers escape from Nature and approach to the reality. In the case of the poems of Lee, Jang-Hee, Shin, Suk-Jung, Pak, Sok, and Park, Du-Jin, Nature is related to speakers' lives and this is represented as a myth, degradation, fantasy, and ideal.