John Donne on our Boundedness

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On occasion I hear others say No man is an island.  By and large, they reference the phrase properly, that is, consistently with what John Donne meant.  But I often wonder how much they know of his more elaborated meditation on this matter: namely, that all life and matter are inviolably and intricately bound up.  Ernest Hemingway drew on For Whom the Bell Tolls, as the title of his 1940 novel.  Donne speaks profoundly to how a part of each of us dies, whenever anyone or anything is lost.  So anytime we hear that death knell, it is for us indeed.

Note: This post is an example of the range of subjects that fall under the rubric of the Tripartite Model (TM) | Religion, that is, philosophical, humanistic and fateful matters.