Comparison Of The Call And Decorum Est
Comparison of ‘The Call’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’
In World War 1, poetry was used as a popular medium for people to be able to express their views upon the war. Many poems were written. Jessie Pope’s poems were published in newspapers, they were also used as propaganda to get men to sign up for the army. Wilfred Owen’s poems were directly against Jessie Pope’s, as if he was attacking her. Wilfred Owen wrote about the reality of war, not the beautiful and glorious lies of Jessie Pope’s ‘The Call’. Jessie Pope’s poem ‘The Call’ was directed at young men so that they would join the army. Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was a poem directed at everybody to show the true nature of war, two very distinct and valuable views which are still valid to this day.
If we analyse ‘The Call’, the poem is aimed at young men to try and get them to sign up for the army. This poem was written in 1915, during the First World War Jessie’s intention is to glorify war and make it out as if it’s such an unselfish and amazing thing to do. She makes it as though if you don’t fight for your country, you will be seen as cowards.
She uses the word ‘Laddie’ very frequently, this is a colloquial word meaning young man, it is used to directly speak to the audience. Repetition is also used frequently, ‘Are you my laddie?’, ‘Will you my laddie?’ This is used to reinforce the fact that young men are the audience of this poem and the message of the poem is to them. She also uses the word ‘you’. This makes it sound very direct, as if she’s actually talking to you. The use of rhetorical questions such ‘Who’s going out to win’, again, reinforcing the very clear message for young men to fight and choose to be heroes or cowards.
Jessie Pope tries to use a sense of guilt so that the readers (at the time) will feel as though it’s their job to sign up, especially with the repetitive, direct use of the word ‘you’.
Looking at ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, it was written by Wilfred Owen who was a very
In World War 1, poetry was used as a popular medium for people to be able to express their views upon the war. Many poems were written. Jessie Pope’s poems were published in newspapers, they were also used as propaganda to get men to sign up for the army. Wilfred Owen’s poems were directly against Jessie Pope’s, as if he was attacking her. Wilfred Owen wrote about the reality of war, not the beautiful and glorious lies of Jessie Pope’s ‘The Call’. Jessie Pope’s poem ‘The Call’ was directed at young men so that they would join the army. Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was a poem directed at everybody to show the true nature of war, two very distinct and valuable views which are still valid to this day.
If we analyse ‘The Call’, the poem is aimed at young men to try and get them to sign up for the army. This poem was written in 1915, during the First World War Jessie’s intention is to glorify war and make it out as if it’s such an unselfish and amazing thing to do. She makes it as though if you don’t fight for your country, you will be seen as cowards.
She uses the word ‘Laddie’ very frequently, this is a colloquial word meaning young man, it is used to directly speak to the audience. Repetition is also used frequently, ‘Are you my laddie?’, ‘Will you my laddie?’ This is used to reinforce the fact that young men are the audience of this poem and the message of the poem is to them. She also uses the word ‘you’. This makes it sound very direct, as if she’s actually talking to you. The use of rhetorical questions such ‘Who’s going out to win’, again, reinforcing the very clear message for young men to fight and choose to be heroes or cowards.
Jessie Pope tries to use a sense of guilt so that the readers (at the time) will feel as though it’s their job to sign up, especially with the repetitive, direct use of the word ‘you’.
Looking at ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, it was written by Wilfred Owen who was a very