Abstract
This article refers to the possible connections between the poetry of Antonín Sova and some modern Korean poets. It uses the concept of orientalism (particularly from E.
W. Said) and especially the thinking of Věra Linhartová on modern art and phi- losophy in the Orient.
On this basis it compares several features of poetics that are geographically widely separated. Attention is focused on the poetry of Antonín Sova and its femininity and symbolic visuality, which comes specifically close to the poetry of the Korean modernists.
From the Korean perspective an affinity is also primarily signalled by the subject of a national upsurge and a protest against the power of the oppressors during the Czech and Korean political and wartime cataclysms.