The Importance of having optimism and hope in one’s life, Is quite simple, By having a positive outlook on life, and how things will happen, can and does strengthen someone’s willingness to attempt new things, have greater odds at succeeding at things they try, and feel better about themselves and life itself. Optimists have fewer health issues then people who have negative outlooks. (Bolt, 2004). Pessimists seem particularly more vulnerable than optimists to accidental or violent deaths, and male pessimists, especially seem to have a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. (Bolt, 2004, p162)
Author, Edger Allen Poe, wrote many Poems, and stories, all included a character with a pessimistic attitude, and the settings where his writings take place, all reflecting his moods. In “The Raven” the depressed nameless man feeling despair, and gloominess, “sorrow for the lost Lenore” (Poe, 1845) The use of a Raven ( a large black bird with a straight sharp beak) in the Poem expresses, the gloom, and despondency that Poe was experiencing, “Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In stepped a stately Raven on the saintly days of yore” (Poe, 1845) lastly, the use of assonance, and repetition, throughout the poem illustrates the gloom and despair, “Quoth the Raven, “nevermore” (Poe, 1845)
Transforming someone who has pessimistic tendencies, and beliefs into someone who is an optimistic, is not as easy as it may sound, that individual has to want to change, or else it will be a pointless venture. Having a positive outlook on things, seeing yourself succeed in things you attempt (Bolt, 2004), stop thinking about what is happening to you, and what you can make happen....