Who's For The Game By Jessie Pope Essay
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 the sociality issue of World War 1, we will also explore the poetic devices of end rhyme and repetition and we will explore the poet’s positioning of the audience to feel to do something about it. The poem was written to encourage people to sign
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The reason why the author wants to make you feel that way so you can sign up for war and join the war not being afraid and not knowing how horrible it is. They have achieved this audience positioning as in World War 1 there were over 250,000 boys and young men under the age of 19 showing that the poem was successful convincing young men to join the war. Positioning the audience this way affected the issue as it has caused many young men to join the war thinking it will be fun and harmless, as it was the opposite. This also was an issue because most of the young men died or were seriously injured. Overtime there was a change as the soldiers of World War 1 first wanted to go to war and as during the war they have regrated it. The poet’s likely intention/motive for creating this poem was to convince young men to join World War 1.
‘Who’s for the Game?’ was written to convince young men to join World War 1. This topic of this is very important as if it wasn’t for the soldiers who signed up for war, many of the countries wouldn’t have had freedom and peace. This is important for the audience/readers to know about as the author needed to encourage people to join World War 1 as if they did not, it will not give the different countries freedom and peace. By protesting the poet it hopes to encourage young men to join the World War
The reason why the author wants to make you feel that way so you can sign up for war and join the war not being afraid and not knowing how horrible it is. They have achieved this audience positioning as in World War 1 there were over 250,000 boys and young men under the age of 19 showing that the poem was successful convincing young men to join the war. Positioning the audience this way affected the issue as it has caused many young men to join the war thinking it will be fun and harmless, as it was the opposite. This also was an issue because most of the young men died or were seriously injured. Overtime there was a change as the soldiers of World War 1 first wanted to go to war and as during the war they have regrated it. The poet’s likely intention/motive for creating this poem was to convince young men to join World War 1.
‘Who’s for the Game?’ was written to convince young men to join World War 1. This topic of this is very important as if it wasn’t for the soldiers who signed up for war, many of the countries wouldn’t have had freedom and peace. This is important for the audience/readers to know about as the author needed to encourage people to join World War 1 as if they did not, it will not give the different countries freedom and peace. By protesting the poet it hopes to encourage young men to join the World War