In this part of the essay I will be looking at two recruiting poems. :: English Literature

In this part of the essay I will be looking at two recruiting numberss. Harold Begbies Fall in poem first was released in the Daily Chronical on the 31st August 1914.The Changing attitudes to world war 1Harold BegbiesIn this part of the essay I will be looking at two recruiting poems.Harold Begbies Fall in poem first was released in the DailyChronical on the 31st August 1914. It was one of the most popularpoems of its season they even set it to music and sung it in musichalls posters and badgers related to the poem were produced.Fall InIn the first line of this poem the source immediately starts withemotional black mail he writes then if you dont fall in then you willbe looked down on by girls, children, couple and neighbors. I think heportrays this the best hereWhat will you lack, sonny, what will you lackWhen the girls line up the street,Shouting their love to the lads come backWhen the poem was written people thought that the whole point of lifewas to grow up and get married a nd have a family. So these quotes werevery heavy in the recruiting poetry.He also writes about how embarrassed you would be that you didnt goand help your country win the war. He does this really well here testament you send a strangled cheer to the skyAnd grin till your cheeks are red?Recruiting poems were very successful they could be sung with music.They were very coaxing and many men did sign up to go to war. Asthe war carried on and the injured started to come back the poems ofthe reality of war started to appear.Whos for the gameJessie pope had never been to the front line and didnt really knowwhat it was like to fight. I will start with Whos for the Game. Inthis poem Jessie Pope makes war out to be a game she shows this bestin this part of the poem Whos for the game, the biggest game thatsplayed, also when this poem was written rugby was quite popular sowhen she writes Wholl becharm and tackle the job unafraid? it may havemade the people think that it was no worse then be ing in a rugby game.Throughout the poem she uses a extended metaphor she always compareswar to something else and avoids writing about suffering and death.Jessie Pope also makes out that if you dont join up then you willhave to sit back and watch the game go past I think she shows this