Who's For The Game Jessie Pope Analysis

War is a tradition of humanity, for better or for 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 imagination. Each author uses different strategies to support their opposing viewpoints while they maintain a poetic feel to their work.

In "Who's for the Game", Pope uses different methods to share her ideas about war with the reader. These main ideas include war being an opportunity to earn honor, the necessity of war for the purpose of defending your country, and that while war "won't be a picnic", it is something that nobody should fear. First, Pope uses strategies such as phrasing her poem as a challenge to people who may be thinking about participating in a war. The phrases "Who'll grip and tackle the
"Who's for the Game" is an optimistic take on war that generates a sense of pride and patriotism for the reader. "Dulce et Decorum Est", on the other hand, illuminates the shame regarding sending soldiers to war and the horrors that soldiers must go through to defend the country. Each poem addresses the topic in its own unique way. The topic, war, has been tackled in movies, TV shows, and literature. Every rendition seems to take a new approach, and not all are similar. War has been and continues to be a subject of either pride or shame for humanity. It will continue with few changes, but the way we perceive it can change. Poems like "Dulce et Decorum Est" remind us about what war truly is, and it gives us a reason to not fight in harmful, petty