Abstract: In the country writing of poetry of the 21st century exists a signifying dilemma, a dilemma hidden in the subject image that it constructs. “Village,” although a verbal image annotating the expression of gnawing pain of the poets, is confined to its original annotation dimensions as it is constructed in the mono-dimensional space in the village-city contradiction. The verbal image “train” generates from distinctive sense of reality and thus becomes a vehicle of tool linking up village and city in the spatial sense. It is in this way that its signifying dimensions are restricted.

Key words: poetry of the 21st century, country writing, poetic verbal image, village, train