No man is an island

Today we studied Meditation XVii by John Donne.  We learned about Donne's belief that there is a connectedness in humanity and that every man's death diminishes all of mankind.
NOTE:  There will be a quiz next day on Meditation XVII!

We discussed the words meditation (and marsupial).  We also reviewed how metaphors can be straightforward, implied, and extended.

We learned the difference between poetry and prose.

We worked on the assignment below (it's due for homework):

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English 10 -- “Meditation XVII” Sightlines 10 p. 2

Although “Meditation XVII” by John Donne seems to be a poem, it is a piece of prose.  Your assignment is to change the prose format of the poem into poetry, keeping in mind that line divisions are important to create meaning.  Consider line length, word size, spacing, justification, font, colour, overall shape, and background illustrations

Criteria

            creative

            neat

            white, unlined paper