[1] While fighting against chronic renal failure for 25 years, Eom continued to write poetry that delivers his warm introspection on life and death.
Extinction, ruins, and poetic introspection on death discloses the myth of contemporary capitalism, and at the same time, serves as an allegory of our age that reveals the desolation of the future.
[4] Furthermore, the poetic self, who struggles with the agonizing pain of his sick body and the resulting discord with his mind, exists at the outer limit of his life.
Even though the poetic self falls into a sense of life's meaninglessness, of despair, and of futility, he nevertheless objectively examines his fight against his illness by relying on the power of reason.
He stresses that what's important is to endure and find beauty within boredom, just as the poetic self has found mental freedom as a way to overcome the vulnerability of his body.
Expansion of themes The subject matter of Mulbangulmudeom (2007) is the real-life figures that have appeared in Korea's popular reality television show entitled Screening Humanity [ko], where the everyday life of ordinary people are featured.
[7] In Meon urecheoreom dasi ol geosida (2013), the poet obtains dispassionate composure that recognizes even life’s agony as a landscape.