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In the beginning of the Great War the army was not a conscripted one. This meant that soldiers had to volunteer their services. As the British army was in constant need of new soldiers many methods were used to encourage the public to join the war effort.
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Compare and Contrast the recruitment poems with those written from the trenches. In the beginning of the Great War the army was not a conscripted one. This meant that soldiers had to volunteer their services. As the British army was in constant need of new soldiers many methods were used to encourage the public to join the war effort. A widely used way of getting people to enlist was to use recruitment poems. Poets who had never actually fought in the war often wrote these poems. This is one of the distinguishing factors between recruitment and trench poems. I have looked at 'Fall In' by Harold Begbie and 'Who's for the game?' by Jesse Pope. Harold Begbie wrote one poem I have studied titled "fall in". The title immediately sets the tone for the poem, by saying the reader should fall into line in the army. This poem has 3 verses,...
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