Kim Young-Tae is essentially an artist who, at some time or other, could also have been described as a poet and a painter, as well as a choreography, drama and music critic. He began writing poetry in "Sasanggae" magazine in 1959, but has never been restricted to just one field and has tried his hand at many different forms of art. Hundreds of his works and publications, including his calligraphy and sketches, have been re-used in poems, paintings, portraits of artists, and choreography critiques and reviews. His unique caricatures have been a source of inspiration for many artists. His seemingly limitless interests and participation in various fields of the arts are expressed in his works either directly or indirectly. In particular, "the Portraits of Poets" is the very work that epitomizes his artistic personality. In this work, he draws caricatures of poets on one page, and then on the next, he jots down his opinion about that particular poet. By doing so, he analyzes the poet by using both drawings and writing. This method of analysis can be described as a "caricature essay". This term brings together the two concepts of both a caricature and an essay, and is free from the usual constraints of an essay, which is focused entirely on letters. This term stimulates artistic imagination and is systematic.