Although the poetic representations such as ``Ainu,`` ``train,`` and ``cosmopolitan,`` which this paper focuses on, are most commonly found in the colonialist discourse, they cannot be understood only as the gestures of resistance, including a subject`s personal objections and deviant attitudes, but they show complexity and become signification. It seems to be that these poetic representations embody postcolonial and post-national thinking. Of course, they are not the core discourse or main movements that penetrate the Japanese occupation period; however, the poetic representations are worthy of notice and analysis, though they remain in the periphery. These specific metaphors pass over the principal of the violent identification criticized by both colonialists` nationalism and anti-colonial nationalism. These specific metaphors also conceive a community, but the community is not a group to establish a nation-state. Thus, this paper attempts to investigate the meaning of poetic representations that are not a subject within a community, but which exist beyond the principal of discrimination and exclusion. It is argued that the ``nation`` of the Japanese occupation period cannot be always understood as (post) colonial discourse, and explained that the ``universal`` cannot be always comprehendedas (post) nationalistic discourse. These three representations show that there is a point that national and post-national thinking and colonial, anti- colonial, and post-colonial thinking can be crossed and replaced in anyway.