No Man is an Island - John Donne (Powerful Life Poetry)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Read by Peter Baker
Music by Slow Meadow
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John Donne was an 18th century poet and philosopher, his most famous words here written in 1624. The poet coins the phrase 'no man is an island' to highlight that all human life is interconnected, and that we share responsibility for each other.
"Any man's death diminishes me
Because I'm involved in the mankind"
Such a searingly real poetry...more so, in the harrowing times of pandemic which has united the people of the world.. underscoring the much valued inter-dependence ! The arrogance of power n wealth... the pride of fame n glory evaporates in the larger scheme of the universe. Each individual is precious n integral to the resplendence of mankind..
Thanks for the upload!
Very deep....you can see into the meaning of this poem very well
Lockdowns haven't united everyone. We don't all want global government, mass surveillance, and to be under house arrest without anyone even asking if we wanted all our freedoms to be taken away. And the poem, which is one of my absolute favourites, was somewhat spoiled by the fact that whoever made it doesn't know that a plural doesn't require an apostrophe. I feel that Donne's acceptance of death as a inevitability is a lesson to those who illogically want the healthy locked away, with the mistaken idea that this will magically save the lives of the old, and ill.
A pertinent comment, & well written.
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"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."
Powerful
I wish this was taught in schools. Seriously, as a 40 year old, I’m truly ruminating on this poem. It speaks to humanity: Not dis/likes on Twitter
Robert Heinlein : REEEEEEEEE!!!
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
-- John Donne
The Lord rebuke our pride. The Lord bless our humility.
The Lord rebuke our greed. The Lord bless our charity.
The Lord rebuke our wrath. The Lord bless our kindness.
The Lord rebuke our envy. The Lord bless our patience.
The Lord rebuke our lust. The Lord bless our chastity.
The Lord rebuke our gluttony. The Lord bless our temperance.
The Lord rebuke our sloth. The Lord bless our diligence.
This multi-faceted perception of God should not be conflated with God Himself. This is our human perception of our experiences of God’s interaction with us. But as James 1:17 yet states, every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. As 1 John 1:5 states, this then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
This poem has a lot of meaning and good morals in it, but with this music and the voice... It just makes this poem mean much more than just a random poem with a random meaning. Whoever does not understand what the poem means... I feel sad for him or her because (again) this poem has a great "lesson" in it that is a 100% true.💗
I agree. It's so engaging it gave me chills.
Donne was an Anglican priest and this poem was originally part of a sermon he preached at St. Paul's cathedral in London.
This voice combined with the quotes gave me goosebumps.
True
It's really true!
Yes
John Donne’s poems always touch my heart❤️ really amazing poetry
I remember having to learn this poem in 4th grade for a kids Mensa project. When I preformed it in front of the entire fourth grade class I wept, as this poem meant so much to me. Even though it meant so little to the other kids in my class. I’ve never told my parents that story. So here UA-cam.
hear hear!
I love reading comments like this. Thank you!
I need JESUS - Beautiful user name.
They say shape the clay when it is wet and not after it was put it was made hot.. Strike a hot iron while it is hot.
LOTS of good things have to be PLEASANTLY taught in schools to children. When we grow up we develop any one or more or all of the following:
Ego, we develop s tendency that we know all, we have no time, life's problems (due to partner or otherwise) make us devote less time to know more or there is nobody to tell/ teach us.
So, what is learned in young age (good or bad) UNLESS the childhood is a disturbed (for various reasons) remains in the back of mind and directs us throughout the life.
You learned the right thing in school. The compassion, that is.
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I believe the most fitting 4th grade reponse to this would be, and I quote:
“NEEERRRRRRDDDDD!”
@joshua james - Helped. We will require further help.
Wow. Deep and beautiful poem.
Indeed we're all connected, not only to humans, but to the entire universe
Rocio ...
... But to the entire universe ...
And all are connected to GOD too.
No Man Is An Island, what powerful and true-life poetry by John Donne.
I become a beloved fan of this UA-cam channel because of its powerful life poetry content with marvelous and beautiful poetry presentation. 👍👍👍
I just finished Ernest Hemingway's For Whom The Bell Tolls, about 4 days ago, then this appears in my recommendations. Great book, on top that the poem is great too.
The voice purely justifies the poetry....!!!! ❤️
I've listened twice to this. Such profundity!
We always raise the glass to Sir John Donne...
Your poetry videos give me peace amongst this unpeaceful world.
Sorry but 1624 is the 17th century. Thank you for the recording! The voice of Peter Baker sounds amazing.
Came here to say the same thing. @RedFrost Motivation, just edit your description... 17th century, not 18th.
So true. I wish we could all live this way this world would be an amazing place to live
Let's hope that is not over..
@@powerofwords7622 If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. WE COULD ALL BE LIVING LIKE KINGS! IF WE HAD A WELL-EDUCATED POPULACE< WHICH WE DONT, WE COULD HAVE LAWS FOR SOCIAL CONVENIENCE AND PRODUCTION FOR SOCIAL NEEDS< INSTEAD OF LAWS THAT PROTECT PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (THE LAND, THE LABOR AND THE LOOT) and instead of production for private greed.
_"This limitless universe is like the human body, all the members of which are connected and linked with one another with the greatest strength. How much the organs, the members and the parts of the body of man are intermingled and connected for mutual aid and help, and how much they influence one another! In the same way, the parts of this infinite universe have their members and elements connected with one another, and influence one another spiritually and materially."_ _"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."_ -Writings of the Baha'i Faith bahai.org :)
The timing is right on this one!
Memorized in 9th grade. Never forgot. Powerful!
Never send for whom the bell tolls. I tolls for thee.
Love your channel man. Beautiful stuff, keep grinding. Your work has helped me a lot in ways I can’t explain. Thank you.
Bro I love these, keeping making them please. ❤️
I love this poem because I can visualize a man hearing the church bell ring, knowing it's for a funeral. And having sympathy knowing one day the bell will ring for him some day. Also plague was going around during the writing of this poem so alot of deaths, alot of bells.
A couple of friends and I were talking about music and what songs give us goosebumps. I mentioned that poetry causes the same reaction, and remembered this poem. This poem is one of the first times I remember getting goosebumps. "It tolls for thee" has also been known to choke me up if I'm an a melancholy state of mind. Such a beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing this.
In the poem, the speaker addresses the interconnectedness of human beings. We all are, as a member of our species, a part of a whole. The death of a single person amounts to the loss of ourselves.🙏
Nice poets of John Donne
No man is an island, but every man is a peninsula.
"IT TOLLS FOR THEE" gave me chills
Wow.!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't have such a heavy yet pleasant voice
I don’t listen to music anymore so I have a running playlist of my favourite poems which are mostly from this UA-cam channel. Thank you for all your hard work. I really appreciate you. You’re a gem.
Amazing poetry❤️
Brilliant reading...true Donne did a stint in the military but when I was studying for an English Lit degree (so not random trivia) Donne was much more renowned first as an unapologetic homewrecker than a military man--his interest in a woman appeared not to consider her marital status. Second he was known as a clergyman (that word doesn't do his refocus justice...'spiritual devotee?') who walked away completely from his former 'easy' rakish life--few people accomplish a complete transformation of behaviour as Donne did. This piece was written in the second [divinely inspired] part of his life, some years after his wife had died and after 5 of their 12 children had died. At the time this was written his commitment to The Greater Than (whatever each person names it) battled with his internal grief and loss prompting him to end his life. 'Do not ask 'whom does the bell toll for?' (gossip)...' because in all cases when the bells tolls if we are appropriately engaged with and empathic towards the community 'it tolls for us'. It never tolls for another--you hear the bell? We have all suffered a loss.
i like smart, i like wise better, i like quiet more than noise. and i thank you for sharing. from an infj
"The principles of the oneness of the world of humanity must be proclaimed, understood and put into practice, so that all the nations and religions may again remember the long-forgotten fact - that they are all the progeny of primordial humanity, Adam, and the denizens of one land." ~ Abdu’l-Baha, Baha'i Faith
STFU, zealot.
@@callmeanythingbutlatefordinner 🤣🤣🤣so much hate
Francis I love this quote. So very true.
Can there be a greater poem than this? I would submit no. There are other great poems, but beauty is beauty. It cannot be quantified.
it's deep, but with this background music and good voice, it's so deep
I have a tattoo that says: No man is an island . My favorite poem ❤️
GREAT !!!
Wise words always progressing is, we are the highest affirmations. Always improving🔥❤🤘🔥
always is a meaningless word, women are so fond of using it, they spoil every relationship by trying to make it last forever. there is no difference between us and a mosquito, if we are the highest affirmations then so is it.
I THINK U MISS THE POINT OF THE THOUGHTS ENTIRELY, U R NOT AN ISLAND SEPARATE FROM ALL THAT IS< FROM THE UNIVERSE< WE ARE ALL PART OF IT AND IT IS PART OF US ALL.
LIKE THE DROP OF WATER IN THE OCEAN
LIKE THE FISH IN THE SEA
THE DROP IS PART OF THE OCEAN
(A MAN IS PART OF MANKIND< THE HUMAN RACE)
AND THE OCEAN IS AT ONE WITH THIS DROP.
(DONT BE A DRIP, ADMIT IT!)
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
we are not always improving, some times we are going backwards, retrograding.
u can keep trying to improve, but it does not meat u r really making headway
u can just be treading water, barely alive.
@@masterlessmaster knowing that you are going "backwards" is a state of "improvement" INFINITE IMPROVEMENT, as you say we are forever spirits of energy, thus we are ALWAYS/FOREVER/EXPANDING...Even when its bad, we find the good, the lesson, the stoic perspective, best wishes, i choose to always improve, even if im only a mosquito ❤🤘🔥
Thanks for the videos 🤗 🎇
Food for soul 💫
Very beautiful. Who is the voice? Please keep uploading poetry. I discovered this poem today because of you and I was so moved I was glad to be seated. Changed me.
I read the book ftom Ernest Hemingway and there I knew John Donne's poem. It's so beautiful and true for today at my country. Covid 19 makes me feel less human , because so many people are dead.
Mara ... - Correct.
It is time for DEEP INTROSPECTION of all, including dumb people (educated dumb or otherwise dumb) and those who say that they do not have time.
Yes, not an island, but a STAR - which is way better !
My mother was so excited to see this poem. Any man's death diminishes me. When she heard that 70% of the coronavirus deaths need not have been she cried and cried.
You know I gotta save this for Great Poems when these great ass poetry comes on. Keep working on this brother!👍
Excellent!
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Beautiful msg
I am addicted to your voice
touch my heart
If everyone thought like this this level water plane of existence would be awesome I love you all
Beautiful
But be alive --- that only matters --- alive and burning to the end.
(Boris Pasternak)
chills to my bone!
("do not stop") i have no fear, for i know everything that i wish to know, i desire no more curiosity, hence no fear for missing the unknown.
Sir
Please include these poems in this marvellous series
A LAMENT P B Shelly
MERCY W Shakespeare
Thanks..
Love from INDIA🇮🇳
This is going to be quoted in my academic papers
Thank you
Someone gave me this poem, they were right because that person could see I thought I was an Island. Too this day this poem spurs me on...
Why?
It feels sometimes the mechanisms of life trys to put me on an Island. The only thing that can remind me of mankind...
Is mankind !
Grate content
I repeated this at services that were held for the cousin of a friend four years ago.....the cousin was young and was killed in a very tragic accident...he was riding a motorcycle and a teenager on the way to his prom pulled out in front of him
i was only one of three who spoke....
it did not go over well .....who was i to get up and speak
ask not for whom the bell tolls, for no man is an island
cheers
someone said "each man is within an island; what has been borne one must bear alone; the pain of living is always a personal affair"- ernest hemmingway. . . . . . .as a social being man could not afford to be alone by himself. .yet man's personal pain or even his glory is only he himself to bear or enjoy. .even in a group, man cant do or let others do the suffering or rejoice with him. .others may only extend sympathize on the pain or ride with the happiness. .
Yes, this UA-cam clip is, to me, just so much Collectivist B.S. Live Free or Die.
and someone said, PAIN IS A RESISTANCE TO PLEASURE, IF YOU HAVE A PAIN SOMEWHERE IT IS BECAUSE U R DONG SOMEHING WRONG WITH THAT PART OF UR BODY. we are all, fundamentally, alone because fundamentally WE ARE ALL ONE. SO NATURALLY IF WE ARE ALL ONE, THEN WE ARE ALL ALONE (ALLONE). IT IS A TAUTOLOGY. A IS A AND A IS NOT NOT A.
Cass Conner 😡 Why are you associating with this and the technology behind it? You reject any semblance of unity, so just go away and live your miserable life in isolation. Unfortunately you are not alone in behaving negatively and spreading unhappiness around the world.
Sir Meow The Library Cat Ah yes, another misguided child who thinks all the worlds problems can be solved by a “Group Hug”.
We are all grafted from the same tree and share in sufferings of this word, even though one's self may differ from another, it is still part of a collective. Humanity is not only person but every body within it. No mind nor being may be intertwined with the other precisely, but we all are reliant on those around. If one were to kill someone, that one person would affect a family. If a president were to commit mass genocide, the entire country would be within his ideologies- keeping that in mind, not one man is an island nor entire of itself. We share interest and ideologies and we grow with those we find a connection to.
1. “No Man Is An Island” by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man 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 manor of thy friend’s
Or of thine own were:
Any man’s death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee
Time marches on.
The narrator rocks!
没有人是自成一体、
与世隔绝的孤岛，
每一个人都是广袤大陆的一部分。
如果海浪冲掉了一块岩石，
欧洲就减少。
如同一个海岬失掉一角，
如同你的朋友或者你自己的领地失掉一块。
每个人的死亡都是我的哀伤，
因为我是人类的一员。
所以，
不要问丧钟为谁而鸣，
它就为你而鸣！
greeting from China～
Beautifully translated!!
Wonderful translation! Keeps the spirit intact. You could make money off this. Maybe translating classic Chinese works into English? Some of the less popular ones don’t have very good translations. Too literal, and the poetic value is lost.
Can you please nake one video for ' STOPPING BY THE WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING ' By ROBERT FROST ? .Please .
Who is narrating this? Beautiful voice!
whoever it is, is part of u, and u re-cog-nize the Beauty in it, because this Beauty is in you, too. So u r recognizing yourself! "WHO" is asking the question. IT IS YOU! We are not islands because in deepest awareness, in deep sleep, WE ARE ALL ONE!
afraid I’ll have to disagree - the voice is creepy and unpleasant - will go read these lovely words myself
Peter Baker
The one poem I’ll enjoy memorizing to impress them gals
Wow!
Trading works but isn't an authentic, meaningful contribution to society. Totally agree it's sensible to make the most of opportunities, but it can't feel positive unless we're being productive. We are human; social, sentient beings.
This is just lovely. I really like how you use symbolic voices, it makes you appreciate the poem better. However, how do I get you to work on my poetry?
I am sorry to say this but it is not -- at least in its original form -- a poem. It's an extract from one of Donne's sermons published in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624). Of course, it is also a poem, a great and eloquent one, that just happened to be written in prose. I'll retreat to the Pedantry Corner now.
⭐🌎 “No two men can be found who may be said to be outwardly and inwardly united. The evidences of discord and malice are apparent everywhere, though all were made for harmony and union. ...The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers. Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the leaves of one branch... _So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.”_
-Bahá’u’lláh, Writings from the Baha'i Faith
Very good.
Good content
Poetic
No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man 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 manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Truth 👌
My 12th great-grandfather
Hello RedFrost Motivation. I love ur works. I would love to do a reading for you guys sometime. If you do that sort of thing.
Thanks and keep motivating.
You have a great voice
Loved it ✌✌
Can you post some shakespeare poetry as well ??
This is NOT A POEM, but an extract from his Meditations XVII. Sombody transformed it into a poem but it is actually prose.
Anyone else hear "for whom the bell tolls" in James Hetfields voice?
Time marches on!
Please recite "Song" by John Donne.
Super
Choosing this to rem for AP lit
No man is an island, except Barry!
Cheers!
A toast! A toast to you and me and all this world!
A world of nonsenses!
Small minds and even smaller hearts!
Ugly souls and ridiculously ugly spirits!
Beautiful faces thou and amazing bodies; tanned skins and red lips; high heels and short dresses!
Ties and suits!
Lessons and theories! Yet emptiness!
A world of confusion so confused of itself, so confused of its human beings, so confused of realities that in none of the points match goals and aims.
When did it happen?
The turn! The wrong one... when exactly?
When did we start misunderstanding our own selves more than we could ever misunderstand anyone else?!
When was the moment we decided to separate the realities from our philosophies?
When did we say to ourselves "Is ok to not stand up for you!"...since now we were so high we didn't need to!
When did we exactly got convinced that all friends had turned into snakes!?
That all enemies could never change mind!?
That all the ancestors' theories...were a myth!?
....it should have been a moment, a second, a full day, a week - that this transformation took place!
In that moment...we must have told ourselves "follow them "...
And from then - on, we're living the life we decided to!
Its beautiful..can you please tell me whose poetry is this?
Whose poetry is this? Amazing!
@@moumitachakraborty2994 mine💜
Its amazing !! 😍
@@athinaralli 💜🌹thnx
I have just watched the trailer to Sound of Freedom, Mel Gibson,about the international chile slave trade..harrowing -yet with optimism .:For whom the Bell Tolls" came to mind.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I’m the ‘No Man is an Island, it refers to a ‘clod’ not ‘Claude’ which is washed away.
@RedFrost Motivation, what is the music playing in the background? Can u share your playlist? I'd like to use it to study. Thanks.
Can you make a video on If by Rudyard Kipling with your narration.. please...
Could i ask for the background music?
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
-- John Donne
The Lord rebuke our pride. The Lord bless our humility.
The Lord rebuke our greed. The Lord bless our charity.
The Lord rebuke our wrath. The Lord bless our kindness.
The Lord rebuke our envy. The Lord bless our patience.
The Lord rebuke our lust. The Lord bless our chastity.
The Lord rebuke our gluttony. The Lord bless our temperance.
The Lord rebuke our sloth. The Lord bless our diligence.
This multi-faceted perception of God should not be conflated with God Himself. This is our human perception of our experiences of God’s interaction with us. But as James 1:17 yet states, every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. As 1 John 1:5 states, this then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Quite a climax..wonder whose voice is it?
Who 'thumbs down' John Donne??
Isn't "For Whom the Bell Tolls" Ernest Hemingway ???
Whose voice is this?
It is yours. You need not ask, it is for you, by u, in u, and u r it.