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By What Means Do The Poets in These Five War Poems Convey Their View Of War?
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By What Means Do The Poets In The Poems You Have Studied Convey Their View Of War? We have studied five poems of that only two poems- "The Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Who's For The Game" are pro-war the other three are anti-war. "Who's For the Game" is a poem aimed at all those young men at the time of the First World War to try and get them to enrol in the army. It talks about the war, as a fun game and that you should join with your mates as a bit of a laugh and kill some Germans while you are at it. In the first verse Jessie Pope the poet who wrote the poem compares the war to a game of rugby with lines such as "who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid". This puts the idea in the readers head that only strong tough...
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