This study aims to clarify the general principle of the pattern where traditional conceptual literacy is advanced to the advanced level, focusing on the ability to understand and use spoken and written words by the media of Korean alphabet phonemes and characters. And this study analyzes the contribution of a poet Yoon, Dong Ju to raise the level of aesthetic literacy of the Korean discourse community. To this end, it will first identify the general principles of literacy development, and classify the rhetoric applied in Yoon, Dong Ju’s poems as Mimesis, Allegory, and Irony. Through this analysis, it aims to reveal the value that intellectuals of the 21st century can gain by improving Korean literacy.