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Poets with tag Optimism:

Optimism is a mental attitude. A common idiom used to illustrate optimism versus pessimism is a glass with water at the halfway point, where the optimist is said to see the glass as half full and the pessimist sees the glass as half empty.

The term is originally derived from the Latin optimum, meaning "best". Being optimistic, in the typical sense of the word, is defined as expecting the best possible outcome from any given situation. This is usually referred to in psychology as dispositional optimism. It thus reflects a belief that future conditions will work out for the best.

Name	Years	Country	Tags	Works	Rank
Ella Wheeler Wilcox	1850-1919	USA	Popular, Optimism	462	64
Robert Frost	1874-1963	USA	Blank verse, Didactism, Dymock poets, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism, National, Optimism, Realism, Sonnet, Vernacular	144	1
Robert W Service	1874-1958	CAN	Fantasy, Freemasons, Optimism, Slavery, War	837	49
Edgar Guest	1881-1959	USA	Freemasons, Optimism, Sentimentalism	969	92
Charles Bukowski	1920-1994	USA	Atheism, Dirty realism, Optimism, Transgressive fiction	164	53
Billy Collins	1941-	USA	Beat, Humour, Laureate, Optimism	10	66

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