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The 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, includes the phrases "No man is an Iland" (often modernised as "No man is an island") and "...for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee." The work as a whole is considered similar to 17th-century devotional writing generally, and particularly to Donne's Holy Sonnets.
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 ...
'No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; (...) 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.
A portrait of Donne as a young man, c. 1595, in the National Portrait Gallery, London [5] Donne was born in London in 1571 or 1572, [a] into a recusant Roman Catholic family when practice of that religion was illegal in England. [6] Donne was the third of six children. His father, also named John Donne, was married to Elizabeth Heywood.
No Man Is an Island is a 1962 war film about the exploits of George Ray Tweed, a United States Navy radioman who avoided capture and execution by the Japanese during their years-long World War II occupation of Guam. It stars Jeffrey Hunter as Tweed.
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Heimler's theory reflects John Donne's well-known statement that "no man is an island entire of itself", that it is our relationships, positively or negatively perceived, that give life its meaning.
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