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what is the importance of the title of the novel for whom the bel tolls
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Anonymous the title of the novel for whom the bell tolls The title comes from a work by John Donne. Here is the relevant excerpt from Meditation #17 by John Donne from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1623). Note that in Western culture the tolling of a (church) bell signals a death, more specifically, a funeral.
- Anonymous the title of the novel for whom the bell tolls The title comes from a work by John Donne.
- Here is the relevant excerpt from Meditation #17 by John Donne from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1623).
- Note that in Western culture the tolling of a (church) bell signals a death, more specifically, a funeral.
- 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.
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Anonymousthe title of the novel for whom the bell tollsThe title comes from a work by John Donne. Here is the relevant excerpt from Meditation #17 by John Donne from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1623). Note that in Western culture the tolling of a (church) bell signals a death, more specifically, a funeral.
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