Who’s for the Game?
By Jessie Pope
Presentation by Niharika Kudumula and Tracy
Han
Who is Jessie Pope?
• Name:
• Born:
• Died:
• School:
Jessie Pope
18th March 1868, Leicester, East
Midlands, UK
14 December 1941
North London Collegiate School
• Jessie pope is a patriotic and motivated propaganda war poet.
• She began her career by regularly publishing her pieces in the
daily mail and The Daily Express, also writing for Vanity Fair,
Pall Mall Magazine and the Windsor.
• Her poems were written to encourage young men into enlisting
for the war.
• Jessie Pope was one of the main types of advertisement used by
the nation.
Who is Jessie Pope?
• Name:
• Born:
• Died:
• School:
Jessie Pope
18th March 1868, Leicester, East
Midlands, UK
14 December 1941
North London Collegiate School
Role in War:
• She was very popular as her poems recruited many men and
encouraged them to enlist into the war.
• Her work also influenced Wilfred Owen to write and
contradict against Pope’s poem, giving her a greater name.
• Jingoism
•Reinstating the idea Dulce et Decourum est
•Duty towards war
Who’s for the Game?
Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played,
The red crashing game of a fight?
Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid?
And who thinks he’d rather sit tight?
Who’ll toe the line for the signal to ‘Go!’?
Who’ll give his country a hand?
Who wants a turn to himself in the show?
And who wants a seat in the stand?
Who knows it won’t be a picnic – not much-
Repetition of the Title.
Anaphora: “who’s” repetition It divides the
readers into two groups
Metaphor: She suggests that the war is a game. She
doesn’t think about the dangers and reality of war,
the fact that people will die.
Rhetorical Question: Tackle the job unafraid:
suggests that it’s a easy job and that its not a
challenge and its easy to complete.
- It also refer to the courageous, brave and the
youngsters who are willing to risk their lives to gain
victory for their nation.
Question and Personal Pronouns: You are part of
the country, it is yours and that you need to be
involved and be able to participate in exactly
what your country does.
Being a spectator is not part of the job,
you will be involved and you will be
part of that glory and success.
Who’s for the Game?
You will be able to handle a gun which meant that they are men,
that’s what young men at that era thought what it would mean to
hold a gun.
Yet eagerly shoulders a gun?
Who would much rather come back with a crutch
Than lie low and be out of the fun?
Come along, lads –
But you’ll come on all right –
For there’s only one course to pursue,
Your country is up to her neck in a fight,
And she’s looking and calling for you.
She says that if you don’t take part you will be a coward
and a person who doesn’t like to try new things.
Uses a certain style of language which is aimed out towards the youth of the country
which encourages that particular target audience that they should enrol.
Personal Pronouns showing relation:
Calling the country as her, so it
implies that you are to protect the
woman of the country as it is a man’s
job to protect a woman.
Personification: “Her neck in a fight”
That she is at the peak of the war and
it Is the time when most of the help is
needed and by saying your country
again.
- The only way to do something for
your country is to enlist into the war.
“So this is your chance”
Who’s for the Game?
Who’ll earn the Empire’s thanks –
To Become famous and well known by the
community.
Will you, my laddie? –
Who’ll Swell the victor’s ranks –
This Stanza is repeated in her other poem: “the
Call”
Will you my Laddie? –
When that procession comes,
Reinforce the idea that enlisting for the war can ensure
them fame and success. It conjures up an image of glory
and success/ of the parades and procession they’ll be a
part of.
Banners and rolling drums –
Who’ll Stand and bite his thumbs –
Will you, my laddie?
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Jessie Pope
Who’s for the Game? Message/Purpose
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A pro-war poem in which promotes young men to
enlist in for the war in order to fight for victory for
their country. She encourages men to defend their
country.
Her message is to enrol in war and that if you do you
will be promised the shower of glory, and parades
dedicated to the men who enrol. “You will be given
the Empires thanks”.
This poem is biased as even she knows that people
will die, she totally ignores the fact and still spreads
these patriotic messages.
The poem has a regular rhyme scheme with a calm
enthusiastic flow to it. It enables the readers to get
excited.
Fun Facts:
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• Married at 61 to a widower who
was a bank manager
• Humourist and writer of light
Verse