This paper explores into poetic works under the theme of the consciousness of drifting by those Korean poets who have experienced the oppression by the Imperialist Japan before and after the National Liberation. In the history of Korean poetry, it is suggested that the images showing the pain of the drifter have been responsible mainly for the works before the Korean war. As a result of the examination, it turns out that some of our poets have a `line of continuity of the consciousness of drifting` from the period of Japanese imperialism to present age. In particular, Yun Dong-ju and Kin Yoon, in their poetic worlds, show their recognition of the reduced self due to the harm done by Japan as "shameful-name," "a worn-out shoe", etc. We can observe their adjacency on the side of poetic history to the effect that their pain as drifters appear centered on orphanhood and abandonment, and is overcome through the symbolic system of maternity. By relating Yoon Dong-Ju and Kim Yoon`s, our Modern portry will be endowed with a new literary topological-space from the viewpoint of theme of consciousness of drifting.