Annotation of "Who’s for the Game?" by Jessie Pope Saturday‚ 14 August 2010 10:49 a.m. Rhetorical question offers a challenge to the reader. Makes the reader feel guilty if their answer isn’t good enough. Who’s for the Game? Allusion to colour of British army uniforms Repetition/parallel construction develops Pope’s idea of courage Colloquial language sounds friendly‚ Light-hearted‚ conversational. Personal pronouns appeal directly to the reader. Who’s for the game‚ the biggest that’s played
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jessie Pope was a journalist who wrote recruitment poems for the Daily Mail during the First World War. The poems she did write were positive propaganda poems for the war; her objective was to stimulate patriotism in the readers so that the men would join the forces. Pope wrote a persuasive poem where she compared war to a game. This is illustrated in the title ’Who’s for the game?’ It shows that her attitude to war was that it was a great big event that everyone should take part in one way or another
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for the Game? By Jessie Pope War is a highly debatable topic that has influenced many poets. An issue that is important in Jessie Pope’s 1914 poem Who’s for the game? This essay will explore a range of literary devices used within the poem to help analyse the explicit and implicit meanings. Furthermore‚ it will use appropriate literacy terminology to back up quotes within the poem. Additionally‚ this essay will analyse the structure of the poem to show how meaning is conveyed. Pope‚ a naive
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Wilfred Owen‚ and‚” Who’s for the Game?” written by Jessie Pope both show ways it can be harmful but good. (THESIS). In the first poem‚ “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” Owen has a very strong introduction against war. Owen has very vivid images written in very descriptive words that show just how bad the war is at this time. Soldiers are‚ “Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots/ of gas-shells dropping
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worse. It has defined history‚ geography‚ and cultures around the world. War has been the subject of many literary works‚ from the longest books to the shortest poems. Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen have two very different views regarding the morality of sending people to fight and die for their country in war. Pope’s "Who’s for the Game" paints war as an opportunity to prove oneself‚ while Owen’s "Dulce Et Decorum Est" characterizes war as a heinous crime against humanity‚ with horrors beyond the wildest
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In this essay I will discuss a poem about encouraging people to join the war who was written by Jessie Pope and the poem is called ‘Who’s for the Game?’ which was written during World War 1. She was an English poet‚ writer‚ journalist and she still remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems and she lived for 73 years. This poem has encouraged many young men to join World War 1 as she said you will be honoured and be glorious but not knowing how terrible the war is. This essay will discuss
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these opinions. One such poem is “The Call” by Jessie Pope‚ and one could almost consider it an understatement to call this poem opinionated. World War I changed the way humans fought each other‚ changed the way people viewed war‚ and changed literature forever. If there is one thing “The Call” by Jessie Pope is known for‚ it is its extremely jingoistic message. The poem is unabashedly pro-war‚ and it wants everybody to know it. Throughout her life‚ Pope wrote for many publications including The Daily
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1. Who’s for the game‚ the biggest that’s played‚ 2. The red crashing game of a fight? 3. Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid? 4. And who thinks he’d rather sit tight? 5. Who’ll toe the line for the signal to ‘Go!’? 6. Who’ll give his country a hand? 7. Who wants a turn to himself in the show? 8. And who wants a seat in the stand? 9. Who knows it won’t be a picnic – not much- 10. Yet eagerly shoulders a gun? 11. Who would much rather come back with a crutch 12. Than lie low and be
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’Who’s for the Game’ and ’Dulce et Decorum Est’ create very different impressions of war. What contrasting purposes did the poets have as they wrote‚ and how are those purposes reflected in the language they used? Jessie Pope wrote ’Who’s for the Game’ to encourage young men into joining the British army. She wrote it as she believed one hundred percent in the war and the government propaganda. She was very patriotic and wanted to use her writing skills to help the country. Jessie Pope wrote the poem
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Examples Jessie Pope – who’s in for the game and Wilfred Owen- ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ Question: How and why do the text differ and how would they be interpreted by different readers? Focus of the Text The focus of this written task was to show understanding of war language and how this language works. For example there are a couple of things that often recur in war language such as metaphors and simile. However‚ these two stylistic devices can be used in both a positive (Jessie Pope) and a negative
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