[ilds] syllabary and codes

[slighcl]

On 2/27/2008 11:25 PM, Bruce Redwine wrote:
>   I also take the time of the poem as modern, roughly contemporaneous 
> with composition, and not one of Cavafy's historical moments, although 
> this too is rather vague and indefinite.
>

Here is the time referent for the poem, right?

>         On the other hand neither would she build him sons
>         Or be a subject for verses---the famished in-bred poetry
>         Which was the fashion of *his time and ours*.

So what sort of historical setting do we have starting from that point?

C&c.


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Charles L. Sligh
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