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WW1 Poetry Coursework War poetry conveys a number of different messages, being anti-war, the ideas of chivalry and glamour involved in the fight, and poems trying to recruit young men into the war are all common, especially in WW1. There are many poets from this time who use these ideas a lot in their poetry, I will be looking at five of them in detail, Jessie Pope, Rupert Brooke, Arthur Graeme-West, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Who's For the Game? By Jessie Pope is a recruitment poem, aimed at young men, glamorising war to a degree that it classifies it as a big game. There is a recurring theme in the poem of spectators and participants, whilst also using rhetorical questions, 'Who wants a turn to himself in the show?/And who wants a seat in the stand?' would be a very good way to get young men, already...

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