The two poems I have chosen are 'Disabled' by Wilfred Owen and 'Who's for the game' by Jessie Pope.
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JULIE WILCOX ENGLISH LITERATURE POETRY ASSIGNMENT COMPARE AND CONTRAST TWO WAR POEMS OF YOUR CHOICE The two poems I have chosen are 'Disabled' by Wilfred Owen and 'Who's for the game' by Jessie Pope. Both Poems are set around the war but they show very different perspectives. In Disabled, Owen tells the story of a young man from the Scottish Regiment who was a fellow patient in the hospital Owen was sent to after suffering from shell shock. Owen was very disillusioned with the idea of war and wrote to show people the truth and obliterate the image of war created by propaganda. Pope was a member of the 'White Feather Brigade', as they were known. Women who felt it was their duty to their country to send their men to war. Any woman who was seen out with a man not in uniform was labelled a traitor; men who did not join up...


