For Whom The Bell Tolls Comments

Now we know this Title original by John Donne and not by Ernest Hemingway. I have enjoyed this very worthy poem

God, who is our only security. is the concluding line byJohn Donne in this poem. So truest and very insightful poem. I love John Donne's faithful belief for God.5 Stars full on Top

John Done the great poet and his poems always envisions a God friendly human relations and proclaims the universal god to make us responsible to the almighty for all our actions. I likes the poet.

A masterpiece that deals on fate, religion, life and death. Very encompassing and discerning write. So brilliantly narrated.

I learned it as a song....

No Man is an Island.....I learned it written as a song....

Why'd' is the format like this? Do you hate us this mch, Poem-Hunter?

I would like the words to the poem For whom the bells toll by John Donne

So beautifully stated. Easy to understand and simply put, the idea that we need each other and need to see our relationship to the whole. We are it, it is we. So appropriate for todays world and the ocean of garbage we all share, we all created, we all may be washed away by the ocean's dominance.

I so remember this poem from high school however I remember it in another phase that went like this. No man is an island no man stands alone for each mans joy is joy to me but each mans grief is his own we need one another so I will defend each man as my brother each man as my friend. I think thats right but I cant find it any where but my aging head.

Lengthy but Embroided with facts. Kudos donne!

The most Realistic Way to look life. You Shout Read it for Yourself. En Español solemos decirnos cuando alguien cercano a Nosotros Muere y queremos llorar: En vida, hermano en Vida.

John Donne (and your page) are real and marvellous discoveries! Thanks!

........we are definitely all in this together....this write is very beautiful....yet it is more like a letter of importance than a poem...written for someone special....someone chosen....someone for whom the bell tolls...the concepts in this poem are brilliant....no man is an island unto himself....when one of us fails....we all fail....and vice versa....truly this poet understood the meaning of togetherness....otherwise how could he have composed this brilliant masterpiece...

A poem written in poet's own holistic approach regarding the church, meditation, and collective responsibilities and such so other things which are important and the poem is very beautiful.

The bell tolls for the living dead Who hath been given this living breath Yet, despondent waste their space and time Caring not to count the gifts but whine for wealth......

To understand 'For Whom The Bell Tolls' by John Donne, it will be useful to explore Donne’s conception of religion. Donne states his belief in Meditation XVII, that the church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all; meaning in death God deals with all in universal terms. Donne defines these terms as to God the Lord belong the issues of death, ... it is in his Power to give us and issue... deliverance, ... (we) are brought to the jaws and teeth of death, and to the lips of that whirlpool, the grave. This quote from 'Death's Duell' by John Donne, clearly defines a religious theme, an exploration of the meaning of death. The poem begins PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him meaning he is extremely sick and about to die, but does not know he is about to die, that the bells tolls for his imminent death. The discourse on for who the bells are tolling continues I may think myself so much better than I am, ... (but) they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it (the bells) to toll for me, and I know not that. Thus he believes himself to be in better heath than he is, but is terminal and about to die. John Donne is expressing various Christian religious thoughts, such as all are united in the body of Christ; indeed Colossians 1: 18 states Christ is the head of the body, the congregation. Donne affirms this belief stating When she (the church) baptizes a child, that action concerns me; for that child is thereby connected to that body which is my head too, and ingrafted into that body whereof I am a member. For Donne this clearly means as he originally declared in the lines preceding this quote the church is Catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does belongs to all. How does Donne define God claiming us in death, in ways where death universally claims us? With the belief all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book. Put simply God created man and tears us from the book of life at his will. Donne defines death as a process through which we all must be translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation. Death is universal but God claims our lives in different ways. It does not matter where or how we die because God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open. This is a reference to God writing our names in the book of life or death. Donne reminds us we shall all die in the line never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. Sharing sufferings of others is a basic Christian concept, and so is sharing death, which Donne links as a universal misery affecting all saying Neither can we call this a begging of misery, or a borrowing of misery, as though we were not miserable enough of ourselves, but must fetch in more from the next house, in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Our sufferings in life Donne insists prepare us or death and God because affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. This echoes the sentiment behind verses like Revelation 2: 27; where people are shepherded with an iron rod, so they will be broken to pieces like clay vessels, and made into a new being. A concept like iron ore tortured in the furnace, to produce the purity of the finest steal. Tribulation is treasure... we get nearer and nearer our home, heaven, by it. Thus Donne clearly means suffering in life prepares us for the purity, of our creation through death into a new being, to share eternity with God. Eventually all shall be sick to death, and this affliction... contemplation we cannot escape. Donne recognizes the hand of God and a chance of salvation in death and he will grasp this opportunity and so secure myself, by making my recourse to my God, who is our only security. This is the ultimate reminder, God works in mysterious ways. The concept being we know that God causes everything to work together (cooperate) for the good of those who love God and (who) are called in accordance with his purpose as Romans 8: 28 declares. The treasure of salvation concept Donne expresses, is rich with Biblical references, but after all, these are church bells that toll for us that bell which is passing a piece of himself out of this world. The language of Meditation XVII by John Donne is difficult, it requires several readings and studied thought but the theme is clear, The bell doth toll for him that thinks it doth; and … (through death and belief we are) united to God.

Yes, God is our only security For whom the bell tolls- -A masterpiece by the master poet! ! !

This is the full rich sound of wisdom expressed in precise memorable phrasing, whether you agree with it or not. Imagine being present when this sermon was first heard!

First I thought, where did Hemingway get the title of his book? ? ? ? ? But Donne, in the poem, tells that GOD is the holder of the reins of life. Lest we mortals forget that revelation.