An Island

"Meditation 17" is one of the famous poems written by John Donne. The poem was about hearing the bell that rings when somebody dies and wondering whom the bell was ringing for. John stated in the end that the bell rings for everyone because the person who died was apart of his or her own life. John's most famous line from the poem "No Man is an Island, entire of itself" tells that people in life affect others. People do affect others no matter when or where they were in their time. Everybody in life affects everyone else whether they are in society, away from society, or have lived in the past.
People who live in society affect the people who are in society. These are the people seen everyday by most others, so it has one of the strongest effects on people. …