Who's For The Game Annotated

The overall message in this poem is a drill sergeant educating young soldiers and preparing them for the harsh reality of war. He is not playing ‘Mr. nice guy’, he is being tough and strict to give the soldiers no easy way out.

the war, it is misleading. Pope was ridiculed for doing this, but if she did write

This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through their skin and bones. It

Henry states “The war has already begun”. This shows the audience that like it or not we are already at war. At this time boston harbor is shut down and is under martial law. THey have also killed innocent people. THe audience is moved by the words because it makes or forces the audience to open there eyes to the reality of the current events. Henry also says “We have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne”. With the use of this he is showing the audience that they are falling for the kings game. He keeps doing what he wants and they sit there with their hands tied as he lunges at them with his spear of

His victorious tone also conveys also conveys the glory and honour that accompanies being a soldier. The actual hardships of the war which would dissuade enlisting if mentioned, is deliberately silenced by Paterson.

The first stanza tells the reader that the writer glorified war and hoped to be a solider. In the second stanza, the battles that he speaks of aren’t real, they’re battles that he has imagined. The battles and innumerable wounds could be metaphors for his hard upbringing (3-4). The poem uses a lot of figurative language to portray the authors youthful imagination. Simic imagines what it would be like to be a solider, by playing with cardboard swords and boasting about “Slain thousands” (4).

In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, it is very tragic and full of anti-war thoughts. In “Who’s for the Game?” by Jessie Pope, the author is pro-war because she talks about feeling the rush in war. The poems are very different from each other and both have a lot of good points. The mood and tone are very different and the author's ideas differ. They are both going to give you a different side on the war, weather you should or shouldn't go to war.

In his novel, “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien paints a picture that seems very strange to those of us who have not experienced war, in his novel, “The Things They Carried.” In one part of book, Tim O’Brien describes his time with an older vietnamese man who guided them through the heavily booby-trapped jungle. While in this life-or-death situation, the platoon seemed to turn the scenario they were in into a game that was being played. A game that had the lives of men on the line. A game that was necessary for survival. But nevertheless, it was a game. The game had one simple rule that the men turned into a rhyme and that the soldiers would chant as they marched through the jungle behind the old man. “Step out of line, hit a mine; follow

‘Sheriff’ was “excited, enthusiastic. It would be far more interesting to be an officer than a man in the ranks ”, telling us that he was also plagued by an opinion that being in the army was almost a better job than being in a highly qualified job in society, with propaganda posters -saying “do the job HE left behind ”, as if saying war is more important than your job, and this is reinforced by ‘Stanhope’s’ own decision to join the army. ‘Owen’ saw himself as a conscientious objector, opposing ‘Sheriff’s’ own beliefs. His poetry, however, also highlights society’s reflection of war, where in ‘Disabled’, the narrator joins ‘to please his Meg, Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts’, showing how they were under the sole impression that war would give them a better name with their lady’s, so that he didn’t ‘have to beg’, ‘he asked to join’, emphasising how easy it was to enlist to go to war. As “Owen wrote several poems in Sassoon’s drily satirical mode ”, a friend he met at “Craiglockhart” we know that ‘Owen’ believed the way to enlist as being stupid, as they only

The author portrays and convinces the reader not to go to war. In contrast, the second poem is an opposition to the poem " Who's for the Game?" The poem tries to explain that war is not at all glorious, nor is the death of a soldier sweet nor pleasant. In addition, the author says, "For there's only one course to pursue," meaning that our country has a goal to destroy another country in the war and the soldiers have to pursue this goal.

Conversely, Pope adopts a colloquial, sing-song-like tone in an effort to inaccurately characterize war as simple and effortless. Her application of the word “laddie” throughout her poem The Call communicates the informal and conversational presentation of the topic, for the word is often used in everyday, casual settings. Such a careful choice of language demonstrates her subtle downplay of the seriousness of war, for choosing to converse in such an informal manner when discussing a subject of this magnitude highlights her intention to equate war to the everyday connotation of her word choice. In addition, it allows her to appeal to her audience on a personal level. Rather than merely posing questions to her audience every other line, Pope chooses to address them personally with the inclusion of “my laddie”. Perhaps this intimate acknowledgment contributed to her poem’s success in persuading men to enlist. Likewise, the entirety of The Call exhibits her deliberate illustration of war as a sport or game, specifically in lines such as, “Who longs to charge and shoot” and “Who’s keen on getting fit” (Pope 11,13). These understated comparisons accentuate her sing-song-like tone, for they are consistently followed by rhetorical questions that challenge a reader’s loyalty and commitment. This rhythm Pope develops in The Call results in a forced steady read, much like that of nursery rhymes. Although indistinct, the rhythmic similarities between nursery rhymes and The Call

In the first quote, Jessie Pope is referring to the war as a sport such as rugby where you would be doing something brave, because it is slightly dangerous. Also you would be playing for a team, so by trying hard and putting all of your effort into the game you would be helping your team to win. The second excerpt is acknowledging the fact that you may get injured, but not seriously, and people would admire you for getting injured for the good of

The point of the poem was to deliver the horrors of war to the public

“The ‘Eathen” shows us the life of men at war and how they are committing to the ultimate risk for the well being of others. “Keep away from dirtiness—keep away from mess,/ Don’t get into doin’ things rather-more-or-less! / Let’s ha’ done with abby-nay, kul, and hazar-ho; / Mind you keep your rifle an’ yourself jus’ so!” (Lines 73-76). You can’t go halfway into things, you must commit yourself to change: “An’ now the hugly bullets come peckin’ through the dust, / An’ no one wants to face ’em, but every beggar must; (lines 53-54). Everyone has the option to take risks in their lives, but some are bitter from the taste of failure. “The young recruit is ’appy — ’e throws a chest to suit;” (line 25). The recruit is happy because he has risked his life for others, he has found his purpose in pursuit of risk, and as a result,

‘Who’s for the Game?’ was written by Jessie Pope in 1915 (At the beginning of the First World War). Jessie Pope was an English poet who began writing for Punch; between 1902 and 1922 she supplied 170 poems to the magazine. She was a prolific writer of humorous verse, articles, and short stories, which were published in many newspapers including the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Evening Standard, The Queen, and the Westminster Gazette. The purpose of the poem ‘Who’s for the game?’ is to persuade men to become part of the army and fight for England. The main message in this poem is if you join the army then you will