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We can refer to Jeong Yak-yong (1762-1836) and Lee Hak-gyu (1770-1834) as representative figures on the side of practice of realistic poetic recognition in the late Joseon. Jeong Yak-yong has been evaluated as a great scholar who integrated Sil-hak ‘practical scholarship’ on one hand, and occupies a great position in the history of the late Joseon’s ideology on the other. Lee Hak-gyu also underwent life in exile for 34 years, and was influenced considerably on the poetic side by Jeong while exchanging with him. Of his works, those dealing with the miserable aspects of farmers occupy the central positions. He also created <Gigyeong Gisa> as a reply to Jeong’s <Jeongan Gisa>. As the two works are composed of narrative contents in a Sanbaipian-style form, they take reality as one of their most prominent characteristics. First of all, they figure aspects of farmers facing penury, and of bureaucrats full of corruption and vanity. In addition, as narrative poems, they are understood as having a structure of confrontation. However, considering them through thematic examination, they have limitations in that they cannot solve all the problems with the reality at that time. The two authors’ have many classic Chinese poems. Hence, we cannot account for the entire aspects of their works with only a few fragments. It is another task to review other works by these two authors.

realistic poetic recognition. Sanbaipian-style form. prominent characteristics. aspects of farmers facing penury. a structure of confrontation