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  2. ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls/No Man is an Island’ by John Donne is a short, simple poem that addresses the nature of death and the connection between all human beings. Donne begins by addressing the impossibility of solitude.

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  3. Feb 19, 2016 · Hemingway's book title is clearly taken from Donne's meditation - but another work inspired by this poem is the Simon and Garfunkel song "I Am a Rock," which has the refrain "I am a rock, I am an island." The singer tries to deny his involvement with mankind for fear of being hurt, claiming "an island never cries."

  4. Aug 13, 2021 · Ernest Hemingway’s great novel about the Spanish Civil War was named For Whom the Bell Tolls after Donne’s line, not just because death pervades the protagonist Robert Jordan’s thoughts but because Spain’s fate will affect everyone.

  5. Jun 12, 2020 · The oft-quoted ‘no man is an island’ line, as well as the ‘for whom the bell tolls’ one, come from the seventeenth Meditation in Donne’s Devotions. Donne was gravely ill and his own death, and the mortality of all human life, must have been continually on his mind; the Devotions come back to sin and salvation as recurrent themes, too.

  6. John Donne. Track 49 on Poems of John Donne. 1 viewer. 1 Contributor. For whom the Bell Tolls Lyrics. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he. knows not it...

  7. May 13, 2011 · Nature. Religion. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he. knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so. much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my. state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that. The.

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  8. Perhaps the most famous of all epigraphs to a work of fiction, John Donne's poem sets the tone and establishes the theme of For Whom the Bell Tolls to such an extent that the novel almost becomes ...

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