Timeline for Excerpts from a poem: need help understanding poetic English
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| Apr 10, 2023 at 20:27 | comment | added | Anton | @ohwilleke Indeed so, but it seems most unlikely that Keats would have confused Africa (which contains all of the Nile) with a distant area of India (which contains none of the Nile). However, it is an abstruse poem and I doubt we shall ever come to a firm conclusion. | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 17:55 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @Anton During the life of John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821), spelling wasn't as standardized as it is today. | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 6:07 | comment | added | Anton | @ohwilleke I considered that possibility but discounted it because I could find no reference to a spelling as “Decan”. It is always “Deccan”. Consequently, the Egyptian notion of a star configuration seems the only relevant possibility. | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 1:21 | comment | added | Selfie groufie | nailed it.... Thank you very much... | |
| Apr 10, 2023 at 0:52 | comment | added | ohwilleke | Decan is the name of the geographic peninsula upon which the country of India is found and the capitalization would appear to refer to a proper noun rather than an ordinary noun, but that might be accidental, and the reading given here where it refers to stars does make some good sense. | |
| Apr 9, 2023 at 22:24 | history | edited | Anton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2023 at 21:54 | history | answered | Anton | CC BY-SA 4.0 |