William Butler Yeats’s poem “Among School Children” is a meditation on love, essence, and change. This paper attempts to relate the Buddhist theories of essence and change to the core philosophical premises of the poem itself. Furthermore, through two specific Buddhist texts, Milindapanho by Nàgasena and Mūlamādhyamikakārikā by Nagarjuna, the paper illustrates similarities in terms of imagery and philosophical ideas in the specific stanzas of the poem, highlighting a philosophical foundation in musings on love and essence as they emerge in the poem.

• Namrata Chaturvedi(Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi) | 남라타 차투르베디
• Aditya Kumar Gupta(Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Faculty of Arts, University Of Delhi) | 아티야 쿠마르 굽타