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John Donne, aged about 42. Donne was born in 1572 to a wealthy ironmonger and a warden of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and his wife Elizabeth. [2] After his father's death when he was four, Donne was trained as a gentleman scholar; his family used the money his father had made to hire tutors who taught him grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, history and foreign languages.
For Whom the Bell Tolls became a Book of the Month Club choice, sold half a million copies within months, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and became a literary triumph for Hemingway. [11] Published on October 21, 1940, the first edition print run was 75,000 copies priced at $2.75.
The five stanza poem reflects on the impact that unexpected death has on life by describing the death of a once lively young girl, once loud and energetic, but now silent. The reference to bells alludes to John Donne's "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions", which includes the lines, "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee."
All these decades on, Paul Simon is still looking for angels in the architecture. Maybe especially now; he’s 81 and, like many of his contemporaries, thinking about end-of-life issues both ...
In England, an ancient custom was the ringing of church bells at three specific times before and after the death of a Christian. Sometimes a passing bell was first rung when the person was still dying, [1] [2] then the death knell upon the death, [3] and finally the lych bell, which was rung at the funeral as the procession approached the church.
For Whom the Bell Tolls, a 1943 film based on Hemingway's novel; For Whom the Bell Tolls, a 1942 painting by Jean Bellette; For Whom the Bell Tolls, a volume of the manga One Piece; Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (known in English as The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls), a 1992 video game for the Game Boy
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. ... And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Nunc, lento, sonitu ...
In a marketing category crowded with creepy plastic Burger Kings, endlessly cheery Ronald McDonalds and spelling-disabled Chik-Fil-A cows, it's sometimes hard to remember what true fast-food ...