INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF HUMANITY...
A major dysfunction of our universe and growing pandemic of our new generation.
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS?
Why so much disconnection? Why so much loneliness? Why so much separations? Why so much selfishness?
"Per chance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and per chance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that".
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each 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 manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Literal Understanding:
The poet is saying that no man, is entirely on his own. A man is a single piece of the whole entire men kind. Every man needs to be concern about the problems of one another, the way they will be concern about their own individual problems.
It is a great loss, to the whole entire generation of men, when a broken piece of men kind falls out of the whole pack of men as a single universal unit. For every man is meant to be involved working together in the progress of all men kind.
Therefore, never inquire to know, who, whenever you heard of a man misfortune such as sickness, poverty, incarceration, death, or any social hills, in other to know maybe you should be concern or not. The misfortune of a single man, affects the whole entire men as a whole and it is also your own misfortune as a man, regardless of whom the misfortune occurs to. A loss of another man diminishes you as a man.
A WORD FOR THE WISE
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
The tolling bell, toll for thee.
John Donne
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS?
Why so much disconnection? Why so much loneliness? Why so much separations? Why so much selfishness?
"Per chance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him; and per chance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to toll for me, and I know not that".
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each 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 manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
Literal Understanding:
The poet is saying that no man, is entirely on his own. A man is a single piece of the whole entire men kind. Every man needs to be concern about the problems of one another, the way they will be concern about their own individual problems.
It is a great loss, to the whole entire generation of men, when a broken piece of men kind falls out of the whole pack of men as a single universal unit. For every man is meant to be involved working together in the progress of all men kind.
Therefore, never inquire to know, who, whenever you heard of a man misfortune such as sickness, poverty, incarceration, death, or any social hills, in other to know maybe you should be concern or not. The misfortune of a single man, affects the whole entire men as a whole and it is also your own misfortune as a man, regardless of whom the misfortune occurs to. A loss of another man diminishes you as a man.
A WORD FOR THE WISE
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
The tolling bell, toll for thee.
John Donne
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