Two tin cans linked by a badly frayed string on a dark olive background.

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John Donne

No man is an Island, entire of itself;

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker denies that any person is complete and self-contained like an island. Each of us is bound to others and belongs to something larger, so that we depend on and are shaped by the people around us, even when we seem to stand alone.

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