“及时行乐”作为一种文学主题,对英国文艺复兴时期诗歌特别是对英国十七世纪玄学派诗歌产生了重要影响。本文择选并分析了英国文艺复兴时期的几首代表诗歌,试图说明这一主题在西方诗歌中的体现。 “Play in Time ” As a literary theme, it had an important influence on British Renaissance poetry, especially on English metaphysical poetry of the 17th century. This paper selects and analyzes several representative poems of the British Renaissance in order to illustrate the embodiment of this theme in Western poetry.