The Cool Web Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Cool Web? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. According to Graves, what color do we turn when we "coldly die"?


black
grey
green
orange
Q. What flower has a "cruel scent"?


tulip
chrysanthemum
orchid
rose
Q. What object is a metonymy for the soldiers in the poem's closing lines?


gun
tank
drum
cutlass
Q. What has a "watery clasp" according to Graves?


language
our jobs
mortality
love
Q. Apart from the rose and the drums, what is "dreadful" to the speaker of this poem?


life itself
the black sky
hot sand
biting your tongue