Mankind Is No Island~ Its a Continent

This is John Donne's poem. The message was effective: that no matter what the differences are, if you push them all aside, you can still care about others. I think we all need to do that a bit more.

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.

These words by John Donne from the 1624 Meditation 17,
from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

The poem says this: "if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less" This line meant a lot to me. The meaning of clod is a little piece of earth, extremely replaceable and not worth of notice. The poem says that if one clod is washed away from a continent, the whole continent is affected by this one 'thing' going away. This is how it should be. In the poem before this, it says that the continent is one, and each island cannot live on its own, and need the continent to survive.