Compare and contrast the presentation of war and the poets' attitudes towards war in "Who's for the game?" by Jessie Pope and "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen.
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War Poetry Compare and contrast the presentation of war and the poets' attitudes towards war in "Who's for the game?" by Jessie Pope and "Dulce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen. (900-1500 Words). During and before the First World War, between the year 1914 and 1918, there were many recruitment banners, recruitment poems, and many other ways to encourage young men to go to war. When the war began in August 1914, Britain relied only on a small professional force, unlike most other European and Global countries that had very large conscript armies. During this time, young men had huge official and unofficial social pressures on their shoulders until conscription was enforced in Britain midway through the First World War in the year 1916. Streets became full of war recruitment posters and banners, and nearly all newspapers gave space for many war recruitment poems. One poem by Harold Begbie called Fall...

