No Man Is an Island (Poem) Summary
John Donne

No Man Is an Island (Poem) Overview

"No Man is an Island" is a poem taken from the lengthy metaphysical work "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions." Though its author, John Donne, primarily wrote poetry, this work is an extended prose text, divided into 23 sections. "No Man is an Island" is lifted from the seventeenth meditation of this text. It is one of only seven works by Donne published during his lifetime. The text was published in 1624.