dhist faith. Easwaran believes that these two selections from their respective religious traditions, if all else were lost, would accurately show the principle teachings of Jesus and the Buddha, respectively (2). By going through Wordsworth's poetry and his thoughts on poetry links will be made to The Dhammapada and the Buddhist doctrine. The main tenets of Buddhism are the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. In the Four Noble Truths, the Buddha gives "his clinical observations on the human condition, then his diagnosis, then the prognosis, and finally the cure" (30). The Eightfold Path is the Buddha's cure for the ailments of humanity. By following the Eightfold Path, the Buddha wanted people to see the truth about the relationship between life and nature. This mirrors Wordsworth's view of poetry: "[poetry's] object is truth, not individual and local, but general, and operative" (Stillinger 449). He more emphatically states: "Poetry is the image of man and natu
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