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This study rereads the meaning of ‘filth’ and the ontology of the poetic subject in Choi-Seung-ja’s poetry. Choi, Seung-ja describes the poetic self covered in filth, such as garbage, feces, and pathogens, or refers to herself as filth itself. Filth is not only a way to show the endless negativity and decadence in Choi, Seung-ja’s poetry, but also an object that performs the ontology which engages with in a way of infiltration. Filth is not a metaphor for the life of the poetic self, but something that invisibly spreads to others. Garbage or excrement can infiltrate the other in a way that contaminates the object, and pathogens can infiltrate the other in a way that infects the other and makes them sick. This paper is arguing that filth itself exists in Choi, Seung-ja’s poetry as a way of connection and creation. This paper seeks to reorganize the way Choi-Seung-ja’s poetry of the 1980s and 1990s comprehended. Compared to her widely influential poems of the 1980s, her poems of the 1990s have been criticized as having less poetic tension or as the result of a shift to the mystical realm. If filth is seen as a diffuse and relational entity from the beginning, the circular perception of life and death in the poems of the 1990s can also be read as an infiltrative ontology.

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