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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...

Original poem reprinted online here: "No Man is an Island" by John Donne Originally read: February 21, 2013 More information about the Poet: John Donne I only remember parts of this poem -- the beginning and the end -- "No man is an island," (which was told to me when I wanted to go "solo" in group projects, or outings, or like) and "For whom the bell tolls, / It tolls for thee."  (which was told to me as a reference for Ernest Hemingway's, Whom the Bell Tolls) .   So I thought, how simple.  The poem is about no one is alone in life, and...we are close to death?  What?  Going in to decipher this poem, I tried to apply both aspects to each other.   For example, "No one is an individual, but part of a whole.  By choice of by force?).  As you can see here, I try to add a sinister undertone to the poem so I can justify the death line.  Or let's go in reverse. I note this for the last lines, "The crux of the poem is the last line. ...