The Seafarer By Burton Raffel
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Dwelling upon the sorrows and painful side of life may offer a person wisdom and a valuable perspective on, but while with such thoughts, remaining on such ideas may be harmful. To begin with, in The Seafarer, translated by Burton Raffel, an example of how one man or a being may stop and focus upon the darker subjects with a sense of negativity by stating, “Who could understand, In such ignorant ease, what we others suffer?” (Raffel, line 55, 56), to shed light upon how thinking on the cross portions and perspectives will begin to wear down the mind. Often found in the views of things such as optimistic, pessimistic, and others, those that dwell, cling, and clutch to the negatives and let such thoughts fill their head will be down, depressed,