What is Jessie Pope's attitude to war in the poem 'Who's for the Game'?
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What is Jessie Pope's attitude to war in the poem 'Who's for the Game'? Jessie Pope was a journalist who wrote recruitment poems for the Daily Mail during the First World War. The poems she did write were positive propaganda poems for the war; her objective was to stimulate patriotism in the readers so that the men would join the forces. Pope wrote a persuasive poem where she compared war to a game. This is illustrated in the title 'Who's for the game?' It shows that her attitude to war was that it was a great big event that everyone should take part in one way or another. The title is a short and punchy question inviting anyone to answer. This gives the wrong impression of the war, it is misleading and Jessie Pope - either intentionally or mistakably. Pope was ridiculed for doing this, but if she did write the...


