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Anthony Foster
(2/21/2009 1:13:00 PM) |
Brilliant! What prose, what freedom of expression and what truth. To read those words of wisdom a guide hopefully to youth.
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Paddy Harris
(11/17/2008 7:11:00 AM) |
Donne was a rector of the church in the village where I live. I wonder if the bells I have heard ringing throughout my life were the bells he was picturing when he wrote the last two lines.
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Pauline Hinder
(6/28/2008 5:02:00 AM) |
John Donne, mere poet and man, noted 250 years before scientists claimed their 'Chaos Theory' that everything is connected. Donne used a 9-10 line poem, to state what has become a common theme in the 21st century.....he avoided using jargon and cold algebraic formulae to explain much more simply how your behaviour and mine is interconnected. The final lines about the tolling of the bells could be seen as a warning shot across all our bows; when anything dies, we are all lessened. It´s a shame that the commonality has in its own way diminished the value of the words. Whilst you and I may be have our lunch waiting us, there are others on the planet about to die of starvation. How can I still feel as good as I did before thinking of this fact - I too am diminished.
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Dick Goddard
(10/22/2007 4:26:00 PM) |
'as well as if a manor' should be used in lieu of 'manner'
Source:
Donne, John. The Works of John Donne. vol III.
Henry Alford, ed.
London: John W. Parker,1839.574-5.
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Cecilia Nicoletti
(2/21/2007 12:35:00 PM) |
Mankind as a one big spirit.That s been told from the vedas to the modern holistic science...what you do to other person you re doing to yourself and to humanity.No person will take the place of another.Nor person will be less than a star.
Stars die and galaxies die.Why dont we? and only two days ago a man I never knew died.He was neighbour from my parents and I llive by his house for 12 years or more.He was a pianist and he played so good.Thats all I know from him and his name.A man is dead...if we re no islands why did nt I have to oporunity to tell him he played so good.We look at each other as strangers in fear.And the bells were for all of us and the person who draws near the island shores
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Jasbir Chatterjee
(2/21/2006 10:59:00 PM) |
I find the last 2 lines of the poem 'And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee' the most forceful and I feel this is where the whole thrust of the poem lies.
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Roger Price
(2/28/2005 5:27:00 PM) |
In its simplicity, this poem demonstrates the equality of mankind. 'if a clod be washed away' is any person, rich or poor, of any physical or mental characteristics. No matter how prideful or arrogant, no man is an island, we each need every clod!
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