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  1. www.yourdailypoem.com · listpoemFor Whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne - Your Daily Poem

    Feb 19, 2016 · "Send not to know for whom the bell tolls" is one of the most powerful quotes ever, in my opinion. I think people should take it to heart more often. in the time of this pandemic (as I'm writing this) we must ask not for whom the bell tolls, as it tolls for thee.

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  3. poemanalysis.com · john-donne · for-whom-the-bell-tollsFor Whom the Bell Tolls/No Man is an Island - Poem Analysis

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    ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls/No Man is an Island’ by John Donneis 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. “No man,” he says, is an island. All people are connected to one another. So much so that any loss is important. He extends the m...

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    ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls/No Man is an Island’ by John Donne is a fourteen-line sonnet that does not follow either of the standard sonnet forms, Petrarchan or Shakespearean. The rhyme scheme is scattered with a few distinct end rhymeslike “sea,” “me,” and “thee”. Donne also chose not to use a specific metrical pattern. The lines vary in length, a fe...

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    Donne makes use of several poetic techniques in ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls/No Man is an Island’. These include but are not limited to enjambment, metaphor, and anaphora. The latter, anaphora, is the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple lines, usually in succession. This technique is often used to create emphasis. A list of phra...

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    In the first lines of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls/No Man is an Island’ the speaker begins with a clear and memorable opening line. He states that “No man is an island”. No single person is entirely separate from the rest of the world. Every human being is part of a whole. Donne transitions into one of the metaphoricalconceits for which he is well-known. He compares human beings, their connection to one another and the rest of the world, to landmasses that are part of a continent. They are all “p...

    Lines 5-8

    In the next quatrain, the conceitis continued. In these lines he adds onto it, saying that if the continent lost anything, from a “promontory” to a “clod,” or a “manor” that it would be less. This is relating back to human beings and how every loss, or death, is an injury to the whole. Humans are interconnected with one another and can therefore not afford to be flippant with one another’s lives.

    Lines 9-14

    In the sestet, of the final six lines of the sonnet, Donne adds onto the statements he made previously by noting that not only “your” loss is meaningful but also “thine friends”. Everyone is injured when one person is. The poem then transitions into first-personwhere the poet addresses himself and his connection to “mankind”. He speaks of “Each man’s death” as diminishing him. He is “involved” in the workings of humankind. The last three lines directly address death and what it means when a n...

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  5. www.poetry.com · poem · 22500For whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne - Poetry.com

    May 13, 2011 · this bell that tolls for our evening prayer, we would be glad to make it ours by rising early, in that application, that it might be ours as well as his, whose indeed it is. The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute that this occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.

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  7. interestingliterature.com · 2021 · 08The Meaning and Origin of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls; It Tolls ...

    Aug 13, 2021 · ‘Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.’ This phrase has become world-famous but its origins, and even its meaning, are often misconstrued or at least only partially grasped.

  8. www.gradesaver.com · for-whom-the-bell-tollsJohn Donne: Poems "For whom the bell tolls" - GradeSaver

    These are perhaps the most famous lines in John Donne’s oeuvre, especially since they were used in the 20th century by Ernest Hemingway for the title of his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls).

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    For whom the Bell Tolls Lyrics. 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...

  11. www.poetrynook.com · poem · whom-bell-tollsPoem: For whom the Bell Tolls by John Donne - PoetryNook.Com

    For whom the Bell Tolls. by John Donne. 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.

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