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War poetry coursework assignment The First World War was fought over a four-year period or harsh conditions and bloody conflict and through out this time many people chose to show their views through poetry, the most famous of these being Sassoon and Owen. Poems were also written for differing reasons such as to convince and in some cases bully young men into joining the army, these were often called recruitment or propaganda poems. Propaganda poems such as fall in were not particularly poetically valuable but they gave across a strong message; join the army or be shunned from society. Fall In as the title suggests is a recruitment poem and is written using a lot of colloquial language to relate to the working class young men it was aimed at. The poem prompts the audience to think about how they would feel in the future if they did not join...

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