Original poem reprinted online here: "Meditation XVII" by John Donne Originally read: March 9, 2013 More information about the Poet: John Donne So I just want to point out that I found this on Poem Hunter first. Then after doing some research that Poem Hunter didn't post a poem but a prose piece -- a meditation of John Donne. I'm not much of a John Donne scholar so please forgive me for not knowing (and those who might find this useful for you exam/question/essay, heed this as a big warning to go to the other sites that have better analysis). Then after doing some research about this meditation, then reading it -- there's a lot of consistency with "Holy Sonnet VII" and "No Man is an Island" (well duh the phrases are in here), but furthermore, this is shows a more linkable connection between both poems -- meaning, style, theme, etc. And of course the meditation is about death, the soul, and religion then. I'm not going to go over the en...
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