With reference to Dulce et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth by
Wilfred Owen, examine how Wilfred Owen responded to the jingoistic
poetryof Jessie Pope.
" Who's for the game? The biggest that's played"
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The above quotation is from Jessie Pope's "who's for the game."
Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire on the 18th of March 1893. Owen
volunteered for the army in 1914 when the First World War broke out.
After training he became an officer and was sent to France at the end
of 1916. The following year, Owen took part in the attacks on the
German Hindenburg line, where he was suffering from shell shock after
a shell burst near him. The horrors of battle quickly transformed Owen
and the way he thought about life. The reasons behind Wilfred Owen's
poems were to indoctrinate the people of those times. "Dulce et
Decorum Est" was to enable Owen to show the true meanings of war and
to over right the untruthful poem of Jessie Pope and her propaganda
technics.
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Jessie Pope's poem " Who's For The Game?"
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There are sporting references such as "Who'll toe the line," "Who'll
grip and tackle the job unafraid." Also there are parts of the poem
that incur guilt upon the men who hadn't enlisted. "Who wants a turn
to himself in the show," "And who wants a seat in the stand?" and "Who
thinks he'd rather sit tight?" this technique makes the reader feel
responsible and pushes them to join up and be a part of 'the game'.
The rhythm of the poem gives an impression of a rhyme, like something
you could sing to, this is a strange way to write about the solemn
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...arison is that of dusk, to the
drawing down of blinds in a house in mourning. "And each slow dusk a
drawing down of blinds," creating the image that dusk is like a blind
that is being lowered. The funeral is over and rhetorical question
that Owen asked at the beginning of the first stanza has been answered
and the noise has vanished. All is now quiet. The long, heav 'd'
sounds really drag the ending on and draw the poem to a deliberate
close.
In conclusion, I feel that both poets are effective, but they both
present such different pictures of war. Owen's poems are excellent
examples of poetry portraying the realism of war, whereas Pope's poem
is an excellent example of the unfortunate attitude cultivated on the
home front. The contrast between the two allows the reader to see the
reality of the First World War from two immensely different
perspectives.
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