A Humble Appeal By Jessie Pope Analysis

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Yiluo Li
HWL
Ms. D’Eon
5 February 2015
Poetry Presentation Script
Jessie Pope is an English poet, writer, and journalist.
She is famous for her patriotic motivational poems during WWI.
Starting from 1914, her poems were widely printed and published on Daily Mail, encouraging men and women to go to war.
Her Pro-War attitude presented in poem also attracted some criticism, such a Wilfred Owen.

Title is “A Humble Appeal”
So the first time when I read it, I thought that this should be something about society, calling attentions for poor social groups, should be persuasive, people writing might have little power, should have descriptions of something good and should rather be done, should be modest in wording, and attitude should be sincere.
A:
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War days were unpredictable. For animals this was the same.

Look at the title again, A Humble Appeal.
Humble might be a pun? Due to its definition and the content of the poem?
The whole story is an appeal, not talking about an appeal; it is the appeal.
The appeal is:
From the horse
From the Blue Cross League
From the author (writing for BCL)

Work Cited
“Jessie Pope.” All Poetry. Jane Potter. Web.
“Jessie Pope.” Prezi. Alex Kitching. 16 Dec, 2013. Web
“Cartoon of lilrider’s mare Dreamer.” Horse Grooming Supplies. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Trooper, Canadian Mounted Rifles.” Canada Military Heritage. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Game Development & the Paradox of Choice.” Asobu Games. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Cartoon Cruise Ship Boat.” Blog Spot. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Horse Pulling Event.” Cute Home Pets. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Bullet Twitter Background.” Twitter Revolutions. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Horses of the Great River>>Dead Horse.” Lotro Strategery. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“BLUE CROSS FUND.” Reveille Press. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Hto iron brands are the only instant…” In So Long Horn. Web. 5 Feb 2015.
“Badge OUR DUMB FRIEND LEAGUE Blue Cross League Animal Welfare.”eBay. Web.
“Blue Cross” Blue Cross. Web. 5 Feb

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