The object of this study is at examing closely his postion in the literature history by understanding Chong Chi-gong`s world of poems and evaluating rightly. Thus this thesis inquired into the totality of his poems chiefly. It may be said that this luterary contribution to the historical development of the Korean poetry was great and remarkable. Early poems, the suffering of the reality and his poetic self-quest against it are examined, the sense of absence and lostness in reality is expressed through poetic consciousness yearning for childhood and the old home. In the religious verses of Chong Chi-yong was onesided praise and religious self-inclination to God, the poetic tension aroused by the complication and controversy between heavenly things and earthly things were not found. His ideal was Baek-rok-dam of nature union by consuming delineated ego through self-denial showed the height and the depth of oriental spirit. In conclusion, it can be said that his poetry obtained it`s poetic effect from the interaction of his dual tendencies towards tradition and modernism, he contributed a great deal to the development of modern poetry.