The Cool Web Themes
Language and Communication
Language is pretty much the main theme of "The Cool Web," as you can probably tell from the way Graves talks about the… "cool web of language" and ties language directly to the poem's title in li...
Man and the Natural World
When Robert Graves discusses the role that language plays in human consciousness, he usually symbolizes this role by talking about how human beings interact with the natural world. Talking about th...
Life, Consciousness, and Existence
In "The Cool Web," it's hard to separate the question of language from questions of consciousness and existence (try it, we dare ya). Since language actually gives shape to our experience of the wo...
Youth
It's an easy theme to overlook, but youth plays a super-important part in "The Cool Web." In basic terms, youth for Roberts Graves represents a time in our lives when we are totally innocent, since...