Showing posts with label No man is an island. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No man is an island. Show all posts

Sep 7, 2008

For Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne

Reading "Theme of English B", espeically the sentence, " I am part of you", reminds me the epilogue of Ernest Hemingway's novel, "For Whom the Bell Tolls", which actually came from John Donne's poem:

No man is an island, entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were,
As well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know
For whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

Leslie