Who's For The Game By Jessie Pope Analysis

War has been in the world since the start of humans. Many people encourage it while other don’t. In the poem Who's for the Game? By Jessie Pope, and the poem Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen both of them are about war. Jessie Pope's poem was written first then Owens followed. The two poems are different in the way of views of war. Pope, talks how you cannot get hurt and that you should go for your country, while Owen's is a poem from what war actually is not what the people think it is. Pope, encourages war and thinks you should be part of it. She writes in the poem, "Who would much rather come back with a crutch than lie low and be out of the fun?" Pope explains to the reader that the worst thing that comes from war can just be crutches. She is trying to convince the readers to be in the war. Pope is slowly trying to make you realize that war is good …show more content…
"Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue." He develops poem by, first, telling you about the conditions of the war, which surprisingly doesn’t sound anything what Pope writes and tells the people. Owen gives may situations about how war is horrid. Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling, Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time." The soldiers in world war one had to fight with the enemy gassing them. He explains the terror of the people that get it in the system, how they throw them in the wagon as, "The blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud" comes out from the men. Owen is responding to Pope's poem. Owen states, "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent." Owen is responding on how could Pope tell such things to children about war and that it is fun when people around him are getting killed. Owen effects on the readers is that war isn't what they thought it