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The reason we appreciate the literature is to figure out each aspect of choices of human being when they confront the problematic crossroad in difficult situation because it is the one of remarkable interests captured in literature. From this perspective, the concept of “history of meaning” can be the useful tool to reinterpret Song-am[松巖]`s poetry which has been read as the reflection of his feeling of socioeconomic failure. However, as I said several times, when some object is imparted the specific meaning by human being, they become a ‘semantic animal’ who is able to abandon the economic or sybaritic principle in order to seek it, ‘the meaning’. In this article, I try to establish the theoretical groundwork with this point of view to reinterpret Song-am`s poetry. In 16C, scholars in Yean[禮安] area including Song-am, by taking lesson from Toe-Gye[退溪], confront the conflict situation between ‘a scholarship for the civil service examination[科擧之學]’ for personal success and ‘scholarship for the human nature and natural laws[性理之學]’ for academic truth. It is also the conflict between what people want normally and what ‘they’ want with their own academic belief. As a result, almost all of the scholars choose the latter one as Song-am does. I think Dokrakpalgok[獨樂八曲] and Hangeosippalgok[閑居十八 曲] which Song-am wrote should be interpreted with this historical context. The meaning of these poem is not about the reflection of complaint and frustration caused by the socioeconomic failure, but about his voluntary choice between the crossroad as I show above.