Comments on: ‘No Man Is An Island’, Meaning & Context

By: Wayne Coogan

Wayne Coogan — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 01:50:16 +0000

Your’s is a question answered by context…. which inarguably confirms “manor” relates to one’s homestead, estate, or property.

By: John Courtneidge

John Courtneidge — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 16:27:12 +0000

It’s noteworthy that John Donne speaks of ‘Europe’ not ‘England’.

By: Bruce Holvenstot

Bruce Holvenstot — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:28:13 +0000

In reply to Hugh Mann. A clod of earth is a small part of the fields that comprise an estate, or Manor... So I think you are altogether correct to think Donne is speaking of the importance of a seemingly insignificant part of the whole. Thanks and well done.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:31:52 +0000

In reply to sharron cocker. You speak very eloquently; as if you are a poet. I can relate to your anguish and I sincerely wish I could express myself as you do… I greatly admire your ability to express yourself. That being said… some food for thought: Life is a series of challenges… those challenges are more difficult for those of us who think differently. I truly believe there are few things we can change in life; however, the most life-changing innate power we possess is the ability to change our thoughts… and thereby change our lives. Wishing you nothing but peace and contentment… what true happiness is.

By: Evin M

Evin M — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 02:11:10 +0000

In reply to sharron cocker. What a fascinating, sad, yet heart-warming journey you've had. Stay encouraged and keep pressing forward sister.. Life is difficult but also brings wonderful triumphs.

By: Carl Yunghans

Carl Yunghans — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 02:51:48 +0000

I’m glad for you, sister. I know what it’s like to be an outsider too. Thank God for true friends!

By: sharron cocker

sharron cocker — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 03:58:30 +0000

although I have always been an outsider, even in childhood not belonging to the places I lived as I had moved around since age 9yr old,
since may 2001 I have lived a very secluded life almost a recluse most of the time. I saw people for an hour and a half some days. but they didn’t talk to me often. I had very little contact with those I saw in the self-help place I went to for help around problems I had. That became a way of life for me and became the only place I went where humans were.
most kept back from me there. And I was told they all hated me.
I never knew them.
And the family grew up left home got their own lives and got busy and had very little time to spare to see me. and some families lived far away. for personal reasons I didn’t want to get involved with the men who asked,
in the past 22 years, I have had very little involvement with men,
I was lonely at first for a few years, however, I became used to it, I broke through the loneliness barrier. learned to enjoy my own company. However I found that my mental health was getting worse and worse, though I had no feeling of loneliness,
I was becoming crazy in my mind. somewhat like tom Hank in the movie where he is shipwrecked on a desert island and has only a football to talk to. isolation. recently I went back to the old church that I had been in when I was a young woman. and my mental health has improved, the love of the brothers and sisters there is like no other love I have ever known before, the acceptance. I have not known before. I am still having a bit of a problem with mixing in due to the prolonged isolation I have lived in. but I am improving slowly.
i know what it feels like to be an island.

By: Tom Tugend

Tom Tugend — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 06:21:32 +0000

Who said or wrote:

“Man. man, one can not live entirely without pity”

By: Hugh Mann

Hugh Mann — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 14:48:51 +0000

Is the translation of “Manor” in Donne’s original to “manner” correct? He didn’t mean “Manor” as a piece of land with houses and farms?

“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 Manor of thy friends or of thine owne were”

By: john

john — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 18:20:23 +0000

amazing job