No Man Is an Island
No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
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 friend's
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.
As poetry, what this reminds me of is the first syllogism in a logic book for philosophy majors, and if you weren't one, I guess you won't know it. There's also a passage in the Bible that this can be related to, it's about how the same fate (death, meaning worldly death, secular death I mean, without reference to your faith of rational belief system) that everybody does go to the grave in the end.
No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
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 friend's
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.
As poetry, what this reminds me of is the first syllogism in a logic book for philosophy majors, and if you weren't one, I guess you won't know it. There's also a passage in the Bible that this can be related to, it's about how the same fate (death, meaning worldly death, secular death I mean, without reference to your faith of rational belief system) that everybody does go to the grave in the end.