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by chasil 40 days ago
'While game’s title is a reference to “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway...'

This is actually much, much older than Hemingway.

  No man is an island,
  Entire of itself.
  Each 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 if a manor of thine own
  Or of thine friend's were.
  Each man's death diminishes me,
  For I am involved in mankind.
  Therefore, send not to know
  For whom the bell tolls,
  It tolls for thee.

  --John Donne
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne
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Donne was a poet (a very good poet, at that) but this particular passage is from a bit of devotional prose, not a poem, and I think it's misleading to format it as if it were poetry. Especially as it's quite unlike the style of Donne's poetry.
I pulled it from this source. Perhaps they are amenable to your insights?

https://www.yourdailypoem.com/listpoem.jsp?poem_id=2118