“及时行乐”作为世界诗歌发展史上的一个主题,在人类思想史上有着重要的意义。这一词语虽为古罗马诗人贺拉斯首创,但对文艺复兴时期的英国诗歌产生了重大影响。通过对这一时期诗歌的分析,可以说“及时行乐”这一主题的内涵并不是一般意义上人们所理解的消极的处世态度,而是积极的哲理人生的具体反映,它甚至超出了文学的范围,在人类思想史上的人学与神学、现世主义与来世主义以及封建意识与人文主义思想的冲突中发挥了应有的作用,有着重要的意义。 As a theme in the history of the development of world poetry, “Promising music in time” has an important meaning in the history of human thought. Although the term was first invented by the ancient Roman poet Horace, it had a significant impact on the English poetry of the Renaissance. Through the analysis of the poems of this period, we can say that the connotation of the theme of “timely exercise of happiness” is not a negative attitude toward people’s understanding in the general sense, but a concrete reflection of a positive philosophical life even beyond The scope of literature has played its due role in the conflict between humanism and theology in the history of human thought, between the epistemology of secularism and the reincarnation and the feudal ideology and humanism. It is of great significance.