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This short poem poses quite difficult questions about whether language is a comfort or a soporific. Is language a necessary means of reducing the world to the manageable ? The poem can be taught as an exercise in attentive reading, or as a starting point for a discussion about the nature of language, which takes us straight into the TOK area of Language. The Cool Web Children are dumb to say how hot the day is,How...

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