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" Who's for the game? The biggest that's played" The above quotation is from Jessie Pope's "who's for the game." With reference to "Dulce et Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen, examine how Wilfred Owen responded to the jingoistic poetry of Jessie Pope. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire on the 18th of March 1893. Owen volunteered for the army in 1914 when the First World War broke out. After training he became an officer and was sent to France at the end of 1916. The following year, Owen took part in the attacks on the German Hindenburg line, where he was suffering from shell shock after a shell burst near him. The horrors of battle quickly transformed Owen and the way he thought about life. The reasons behind Wilfred Owen's poems were to indoctrinate the people of those times. "Dulce et Decorum Est" was to enable Owen to show the true meanings of...
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