高启一生经历了由追求济世心态向追求个性自由心态再向宿命论者心态转化这样三个阶段,前一个转化在元末完成,诗人在这一转化中完成了对社会现实的超越,在文学创作中实现了自我的人生价值,其归隐更多的是诗人自发的选择;后一个转化在明初完成,诗人在政治高压和个体自我实现的矛盾中逐渐变得迷茫和矛盾,并最终放弃个体自我实现的努力,成为一个宿命论者,此时的归隐则主要是被动的全身避害。这三种心态前后相续,体现出社会变革期文人的尴尬生存状态。 Gao Qisheng lived through three stages from the pursuit of the worldly pursuit to the pursuit of the free personality and the change of the mentality of the fatalists. The first transformation was completed in the Yuan Dynasty, and the poet completed the transcendence of social reality in the literary creation In the early Ming Dynasty, the poet gradually becomes confused and contradictory in the contradiction between the political pressure and individual self-realization, and eventually abandons the individual ego The efforts to achieve, to become a fatalist, this time the main return is passive passive avoidance. These three kinds of state of mind followed one another before and after, reflecting the awkward living condition of the literati during the social change.