In the poem "There Once Was an Old Man" Elizbeth Anderson envisions what an old man with a tranquil mind would see. She says that he sits by an old tree near a pool of water that "reflected heaven itself"(8). Elizbeth believes that the reward for a peaceful mind is a gaze into the wondrous pool. In the final line she continues on to say that the reward is actually a peaceful soul "Such is the reward of a tranquil mind,A soul at peace"(16-17). The wondrous pool that reflects heaven and never is disturbed can be related to the old man's soul. However the old man's soul is like this only because he has a tranquil mind. Similar to the buddhist belief that nirvanna is reached by a mind that has completed the eightfold path, Elizbeth believes that a tranquil mind will be rewarded with a peaceful soul.
link: <http://www.bettys-poetry.co.uk/poems.php?Group=Peace>
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