NO MAN IS AN ISLAND

If you were an island, which one would you like to be? Well, the character played by Hugh Grant in About a boy, the film based on Nick Hornby's novel, has no doubts at the beginning of the story: He’d like to be Ibiza. However, as John Donne stated in his Meditation XVII, “every man is a piece of the continent”, and this is what both Literature and Life show us: we are all involved with each other. Since no human being is isolated, what affects any single man or woman miles away from you, does affect you. Next time you watch the news, think about this.

'No Man is an Island'

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 any manner of thy friends 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.

John Donne, Meditation XVII

If you are still interested in islands, do you know that the British Isles are made up of quite a few islands? Click on the links below and learn about them!

http://www.visitchannelislands.com/ (Channel Islands)

http://www.islandsofireland.com/ (Ireland)

http://www.welshicons.org.uk/main/geography/islands-of-wales/ (Wales)

http://www.cornishlight.co.uk/scilly-isles.htm (Cornwall)

http://www.scottish-islands-federation.co.uk/ (Scotland)