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Jin Chaokui was a famous Chinese Poet of Korean origin who lived in the northeast of China between 1938 and 1945. He wrote many poetic works with deep anti-Japanese sentiments. During the War of Resistance, the Japanese colonial rulers imposed a strict cultural surveillance and blockade on the fallen areas of the north-east. The literary references to reality were not allowed. In this context, Jin Chaokui's poetry is characterized by the colonial literature of circuitous and subtle writing. To begin, the enclosed spatial imagery represented by ‘chamber’, ‘indoor’, and ‘waiting room’ serves as a condensed symbol of the poet’s spiritual and emotional essence, emphasizing the poet’s concern for personal fate, group fate, and the social destiny while writing poetry. Second, the horizontal open spatial imagery represented by ‘sky’, ‘coast’, and ‘terrace’ exhibits the external projection characteristics of aesthetic psychology. The poet shows affection and fondness for all three sets of horizontal imagery, as in this space he can temporarily let down his guard, expressing nostalgia and the pain of being displaced. Furthermore, the imagery of ‘wall’ and ‘window’, which represent spatial barriers, is an important symbol of the poet’s resistance ideology and identity recognition. The poet implies the evil invasion of colonialism on the victimized country through the damage and incompleteness of the ‘wall’, and expresses hope and confidence in the victory of the War of Resistance and the embrace of light through the perspective and permeability of the ‘window’. The rich spatial imagery in his works, whether in the form of confinement, openness or barriers, obscures to varying degrees the poet's “anti-Japanese colonization” and his condemnation and criticism of colonial reality.