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Discuss 'The Cool Web' by Robert Graves and 'Words' by Edward Thomas. In their respective poems, the poets examine language and the importance of it in our life and culture. Robert Graves uses a metaphor of a 'web' to depict language, one that gives form, structure and release to daily events. The image of language being constructed like a 'web' is reflected in the structure of the poem, in iambic pentameter form. Graves describes in the first stanza how children are unable through words to describe 'how hot the day is'. They are completely dumb and unable to express their discomfort, and in this manner lessen its intensity. 'The black wastes of the evening sky' alludes also to the negativity and oppression that daily living inflicts. 'How dreadful the tall soldiers drumming by' reinforces this, suggesting war, reinforcing also the feeling of conflict and negativity. The second stanza turns the poem around,...

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