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  2. No Man Is an Island - Wikipedia

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    No Man Is an Island may refer to: "No man is an island", originally "No man is an Iland", a famous line from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, a 1624 prose work by English poet John Donne; No Man Is an Island 1962 war film; No Man Is an Island the 1972 debut album from reggae singer Dennis Brown; No Man Is an Island, a 1955 book by the ...

  3. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - Wikipedia

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    Donne in the poem emphasise the idea of human world as a whole in which each human being is related to others. so Donne says that every man is a continent connected to the main, if the continent dies, it will certainly affect the main land, in the same way if a man dies his death is felt by the people related to the man.

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Nine tailors make a man, No friends but the mountains [21] No guts, no glory; No man can serve two masters; No man is an island; No names, no pack-drill; No news is good news; No one can make you feel inferior without your consent; No pain, no gain; No rest for the wicked

  5. John Donne - Wikipedia

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    John Donne's poetry represented a shift from classical forms to more personal poetry. Donne is noted for his poetic metre , which was structured with changing and jagged rhythms that closely resemble casual speech (it was for this that the more classical-minded Ben Jonson commented that "Donne, for not keeping of accent, deserved hanging").

  6. Nomanisan Island - Wikipedia

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    Nomanisan Island and Nomansan Island are puns on the famous quote by John Donne, "No man is an Iland " (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624). It may refer to: It may refer to: Nomanisan Island in Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia, Maryland, which became a peninsula in 2011

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  8. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Wikipedia

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    No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send ...

  9. The Hunting of the Snark - Wikipedia

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    The Hunting of the Snark, subtitled An Agony, in Eight fits, is a poem by the English writer Lewis Carroll.It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem.Written between 1874 and 1876, it borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).