The red crashing game of a fight?
In this quotation Jessie Pope has used this, an opening poem like a magnet to attract people because she described the war as a game and she says ‘the biggest that’s played’, which makes people think that many people to think that many people has joined to fight for the war (The Game) and make the people reading the poem to fight in the war.
In many of these verses Jessie Pope uses the word ‘who’ to make the men of their country think it is their responsibility to fight in the war.
In this poem Jessie Pope uses comparisons, the comparisons she uses:
Who wants to turn himself in the show?
And who wants a seat in the stand.
In this quotation Jessie Pope compares the brave soldiers in the war to the wimps who are just watching the battle go on.
Jessie Pope writes the poem in a jingoistic kind of war, jingoistic means aggressive patriotism, and she wants the people who want to recruit must rush to be in the war and save the country.
Jessie Pope uses slang to talk to the generation by using their type of language so they think that she is one of them.
In contrast to ‘Dulce et decorum est’ the poem from 1916-1918, the poet of his Wilfred Owen who was in the Army describes the war as a horrible thing, for he was in the war and he had witnessed the horrors of the war, he expresses this by using the poem
In the poem ‘Dulce et decorum est’ he describes the soldiers of the war:
Bent – double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-Kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through
Sludge.
In the first part of ‘Dulce et decorum est’ Wilfred Owen describes the soldiers on the first three lines he uses ‘Bent-Double this means bent back and ‘like old beggars’ mean carrying bags like poor people and in the middle of the first verse Wilfred Owen describes the men in the war dying on the middle of the first verse he uses ordering language in ‘men marched asleep’ this makes us think that the men cannot last longer, they cannot take anymore of this, they have fatigue. In the second verse of ‘Dulce et decorum est’ Wilfred Owen describes the soldiers dying:
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
As you can see in those few lines describes the soldiers dying in a horrendous way to show the audience what war is really like and tell the that the war isn’t a fun and dandy. And you probably won’t live to proudly stand up to be known for your bravery.
In the third verse he expresses how he feels:
In all my dream, before my helpless sight.
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
In this quotation he shows that he feel s for the soldier dying for their country. In the fourth verse of ‘Dulce et decorum est’ he expresses his true feelings for jingoistic people like Jessie Pope, in this quotation he uses strong language of description of the bloody soldiers:
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs
In this quotation he describes what the soldiers are doing he feeds us images of what the war is like and how the soldiers put effort and their lives to fight in the war to save us from the Germans.
In conclusion to the essay we have been studying is that we have shown between the two poems both from 1914-1916 and 1916-1918, in ‘Whose for the game’, the poet Jessie Pope encourages people to join and fight for the country whereas Wilfred Owen the poet of ‘Dulce et decorum est’ he expresses what the war is ACTUALLY like, how the soldiers in the war die so we have learnt the types of language these 2 poets write like and the themes they use in their poem.
By Vivek Nair
