Topic > Meditation by John Donne 17 - 566

People's lives today are full of technology that helps prolong our lives. It connects us and holds us together as a whole. The meaning of life is a philosophical question regarding the purpose of existence. Not everyone in the world is ready to face death, even though we all have to go to bed at some point in our lives. We humans believe we are invincible, whether we want to think so or not. Perhaps one of John Donne's most famous written works is called "Meditation 17" and highlights death, society, and isolation. In John Donne's "Meditation 17", the bell rings in a church, meaning that a death has occurred. All people are connected through the church, according to Donne. What happens to one person affects every person. Whoever dies is not lost but is translated into heaven because «God uses different translators; some pieces are translated by age, others by illness, others by war, others by justice; but the hand of God is in every translation.” The bell rings for prayer, for the suffering and for those who have died. Almost every person believes that the bell rings for him...