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Post 1900Coursework: War Poetry This essay will focus on the contrast between the wartime poetry of Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen and how their work gave people different ideas about modern warfare; they are both trying to persuade people to do something but in very different ways using different techniques and uses of language. 'Who's for the Game?' by Jessie Pope, 'Anthem for doomed youth' and 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' both by Wilfred Owen. These three poems that I have studied are all extremely different and their views are totally opposite. It is blatantly obvious that Wilfred Owen despises the war and doesn't want anyone else to endure the suffering of trench warfare. Jessie Pope is of a different view, she was not a soldier like Owen and had no experience in warfare at all and especially trench fighting. Both of Wilfred Owen's poems are very bleak and cheerless, there is...

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