Summary Of Who's For The Game Poem By Jessie Pope

Poem commentary 'Who's for the game' Do you want to participate in a game called war? This is the question 'Who’s for the game' is written by Jessie Pope focusses on, war in the form of games. This piece is written during the first World War in 1916 and was originally published in the daily mail. The daily mail is a tabloid newspaper aimed at blue coloured workers. Jessie pope was pro-war and quite jingoistic. the poem wants the men to participate in the war and to make sure this happens, pope compares the war to a game to make them more excited. this is one of the reasons this poem is persuasive by forcing the men to join the war. Other significant elements that will be focussed on are the tone, the literary devices used and the rhyme scheme. The speaker’s tone in this poem is conversational and light-hearted. This can be seen in the sentence "and who says he’d rather sit tight" in the first stanza and in "come along, lads". By doing this, 'who's for the game' refers directly to the audience and the use of "lads" also makes it more colloquial. Pope used this to speak directly to the young men reading the daily mail to motivate them in joining the war. The effect upon the reader is

This can be seen in all the stanza except for the last one. ‘who’ll give his country a hand?’ is an example of this. this sentence is used so it seems like if they do not participate in the war, nobody will. The use of rhetorical questions involves the audience by making sure they have to think about the question. This also causes the reader to remember it and not to forget after reading it once. Especially young men like to participate in games and by asking "who's for the game?" it makes them feel like they are missing out on a lot of amusement they would otherwise get from the game. This is especially effective for the audience at who it is aimed as they would like to participate in these kinds of