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  2. Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - Wikipedia

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    Donne in the poem emphasise the idea of human world as a whole in which each human being is related to others. so Donne says that every man is a continent connected to the main, if the continent dies, it will certainly affect the main land, in the same way if a man dies his death is felt by the people related to the man.

  3. No Man Is an Island - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Wikipedia

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    No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send ...

  5. John Donne - Wikipedia

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    The fashion for coterie poetry of the period gave Donne a means to seek patronage. Many of his poems were written for wealthy friends or patrons, especially for MP Sir Robert Drury of Hawsted (1575–1615), whom he met in 1610 and who became his chief patron, furnishing him and his family an apartment in his large house in Drury Lane. [11]

  6. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Nine tailors make a man, No friends but the mountains [22] No guts, no glory; No man can serve two masters; No man is an island; No names, no pack-drill; No news is good news; No one can make you feel inferior without your consent; No pain, no gain; No rest for the wicked

  7. No One Is Alone (song) - Wikipedia

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    James Lapine explained to LA Weekly that he killed the Baker's Wife in Act II because in real life, tragedies happen to human beings, and quoting "No One Is Alone," "Sometimes people leave you halfway through the woods". [3] Stephen Sondheim liked the duality of the title, which trumped the alternate title of "No Man Is An Island". [4]

  8. Nomanisan Island - Wikipedia

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    Nomanisan Island and Nomansan Island are puns on the famous quote by John Donne, "No man is an Iland " (Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 1624). It may refer to: It may refer to: Nomanisan Island in Lake Kittamaqundi in Columbia, Maryland, which became a peninsula in 2011

  9. No Man Is an Island (film) - Wikipedia

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    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.