For Whom The Bell Tolls
Does anyone know who first put John Donne's "For Whom The Bell Tolls" into sonnet form?
I can't imagine how you would put that paragraph from a sermon into sonnet form! Can you post a link to this? (VSD)
It is a poem - by John Donne.
Here:
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.DFG
[Breaking the text into irregular short lines with initial capitals doesn't make a poem of this excerpt from a prose sermon by the reverend Dr Donne. - B.]
Second Baceseras: this is NOT a poem! (VSD)
Replies
- For Whom The Bell Tolls David FG 13/March/10
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