Who's for the Game?

War is a highly debatable topic that has been used as main ideas for poetry many times. An idea that is important in Jessie Pope’s “who’s for the game” is that men should fight to defend their country in war. An idea that is important in Wilfred Owen’s “dulce et decorum est.” is that the reality of war is brutal and scary. The language techniques that were used to show these ideas are metaphor, similes and personification.

An idea that is important in “Who’s for the game” by Jessie Pope is that men should fight to defend their country in war.
This is shown with the language technique of a metaphor. An example being “And who wants a seat in the stand?”
The use of the metaphor shows the reader that if they don’t join in and fight in the war, they are missing out and will regret it by comparing not enlisting to being in the stands, which makes them seem uninvolved and a coward. This helps to influence men to join in the war because they feel like they don’t want to miss out and be on the sidelines while everyone else is in on the action.
The idea that men should fight to defend their country in war is important because without men providing protection their country would be ambushed and taken advantage of and its makes us realise that without soldiers our country could be a very different place.

An idea that is important in ‘dulce et decorum est.” by Wilfred Owen is that the reality of war is brutal and scary.
This is shown with the language technique of a simile. An example being “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”
The use of the simile shows the reader that the soldiers have become tired and worn down so much that they can hardly move by comparing them to old beggars who are hunched over and in really awful shape. This shows that war takes healthy young men’s bodies and makes them drained and exhausted.
The idea that the reality of war is brutal and scary is important because it shows how soldiers are affected when they go into war and