puzzle, sometimes the pieces get lost or bent. If they do, when you take it back

out and try to reassemble it, the puzzle is not complete; the overall picture,

however, is still satisfying. In John Donne's "No Man Is an Island," the author

similarly says that the inhabitants of the world comprise a team. When the team

(the world) loses a player, the team is not complete, but it finds some way to

move on without that player. Every player is like a pebble that has been

dropped onto a perfectly still pond; the consequence of the impact ripples out

from the center. The ripples reach all sides of the pond, in a far-reaching

Donne begins his poem by telling the reader that every man is a part of a

whole: "No man is an island, entire of its self; every man is a piece of the

continent, a part of a main" ("No Man Is An Island" sent. 1). He asserts that no

they; somehow or some way you have touched them, or they have touched you. So

the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ("No Man Is An Island" sent. 3). Any man's

team for one common goal, such as to co-exist. Every human has some kind of

Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of

Every person is somehow connected to the world.

Some topics in this essay:
Donne's Island, , island sent, cause effect, man's death,