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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 ...
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.
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"). [15]
There is a poem of John Donne, written just before his death, which I know and love. From it a quotation: "As West and East / In all flatt Maps—and I am one—are one, / So death doth touch the Resurrection." That still does not make a Trinity, but in another, better known devotional poem Donne opens, "Batter my heart, three-person'd God;—."
Donne neatly hits the traditional estimate of love by expressing it in terms of an adventure”. [6] Here, Gransden commends Donne's comparison of sexual intercourse to an adventure, which was a modern way for his speaker to coax the mistress into bed. Donne's metaphysical conceit also dabbles in gendered power dynamics of early modern England.
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No Man is an Island is the debut album by reggae singer Dennis Brown.Recorded when Brown was aged between twelve and thirteen, during 1969 and 1970, it includes his debut single, a cover of The Van Dykes' hit "No Man is an Island", a song he had originally worked on with producer Derrick Harriott, [1] and eleven other tracks, all recorded during his time working for Clement "Coxsone" Dodd's ...