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Meditation 17
Title: Meditation 17
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 773 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Meditation 17
Delanah Manning
English 12 CP
October 18, 2001
Explication of
John Donne’s, Meditation 17
John Donne metaphorically symbolizes the tolling of the bell in Meditation 17, as death. The tolling which announces the looming death of an unknowing individual. Who hears the toll, yet does not doubt himself. Donne may even think himself better than those around him, that the world can distinguish his “state”, yet he cannot.
John Donne expresses his devotion to the Catholic Church, that God …showed first 75 words of 773 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 773 total…or possessions that bring us closer to God, it is again our trials and tribulations. It is our tribulations that humble us before our God, forming riotous intimacy. The possessions of one man, is of no use to a man who is deathly sick with his afflictions; but by analyzing this mans affliction and proximity to his time, Donne appreciates his refuge in his humbleness to God, whom is his protector, his shield, his shelter.
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