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Compare the way Jessie Pope (War Girls) and E.A. Mackintosh (Recruiting) write about civilian attitudes to the Great War? Both Pope and Mackintosh have used wartime propaganda in their poems to get across civilian attitudes about the war. Pope uses phrases very similar to the catchy propaganda that encouraged people to participate in the war effort, for example 'they're going to keep their end up'. Lines like these are positive and upbeat and give the poem an assured feeling that civilian attitudes were to pull together and try to get on with the war situation. In contrast Mackintosh uses an actual propaganda phrase, "Lads you're wanted" to get his message across. He makes it clear in the first verse that this phrase is propaganda by saying that it is on a poster. Then, throughout the rest of the poem he twists this phrase to make it ironic and give a negative attitude,...

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