No man is an Island, entire of it self;
every man is a piece of the Continent,
a part of
the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
as well as if a
promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends
or of thine own were; 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.
John Donne is referring to the custom of ringing the church bells when
someone dies. In his time, people would send someone to the church to find out who had died.
Thus his last line. If one person dies, we all lose. So when ever the bell tolls it tolls for each
one of us.
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