Desu is the present positive form of 'be': is. Ka is a question marker when the last sound in a sentence. Japanese grammar also puts desu at the end of sentences. So 'desu ka' is just a combination of the two. I could mean 'isn't it', but that's just a lose translation, I believe.
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The Cecil Day-Lewis poem Walking Away, which many assume to be about Daniel, was penned in 1956 about Sean, recalling his first day as a seven-year-old at Allhallows School in Devon. Throughout his childhood, Sean knew Cecil was having a string of affairs â most famously with the novelist Rosamond Lehmann.