Jessie Pope (March 18, 1868 - December 14, 1941) was an english poetess, writer and journalist, best known for his patriotic poems of encouragement published during the First World War.
To it is intended that the poem by Wilfred Owen, Dulce Decorum Est and while the reputation of the poet had faded to fall into a certain obscurity, just as one develops the "war poets" such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen himself. Here is the most famous poem, one which our analysis we'll be focused on:
Who’s for the game?
Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played?
The red crashing game of a fight?
Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid?
And who thinks he’d rather sit tight?
Who’ll toe the line for the signal to ‘Go!’?
Who’ll give his country a hand?
Who wants a turn to himself in the show?
And who wants a seat in the stand?
Who knows it won’t be a picnic –not much-
Yet eagerly shoulders a gun?
Who would much rather come back with a crutch
Than lie low and be out of the fun?
Come along, lads –
But you’ll come on all right –
For there’s only one course to pursue,
Your country is up to her neck in a fight,
And she’s looking and calling for you.
Here, Jessie Pope described the war as something uplifting, she compares it to a game.
One should also notice it considers his country (England) as a person: the personal pronoun "she" is supposed to refer to the feminine third person singular, so it would use the neutral pronoun "It" in the case it uses the pronoun "she", which shows a personification of war.
This poem might evoke the era of nationalism, because it speaks only of England, and not the other countries involved in the conflict.
It also considers war as something useful, it refers to a job.
The term "guys" can make us think that it challenges young Britons of military age to leave for military, to defend Britain.
Besides that it minimizes the horrors of war, as if it was not devastating.
But on the other side, arguably committed writes poetry, these sentences can prove it :
"Who knows it won’t be a picnic –not much-
Yet eagerly shoulders a gun" or :
"Your country is up to her neck in a fight,"
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