The Cool Web
Yeah, you can tell that this web thing is pretty important because it's, you know, in the title of the poem. The cool web isn't an easy thing to describe, though. Basically, it's a metaphor that Gr...
Soldiers
At first, it seems like the image of soldiers is just one more instance of Graves saying that children experience things differently than adults. But in reality, these soldiers introduce a whole di...
The Sea
Whenever he mentions the sea or water in general, Graves tends to be talking about how language is a fluid thing that's able to "cool" everything it touches. For Graves, heat symbolizes human passi...