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war poetry post 1914

This would to appeal to masses of young recruits. The last line refers to cowards "shirkers" as Pope would call them. Young men would like to be seen as brave than "sit tight " at home in safety.
             The second stanza starts with,.
             "Who"ll toe the line for the signal to go !? ".
             "go!?" is connected to the recruitment poster campaign which tried to be easy to understand and relate to. Which was why Pope added it into her poem along with "toe the line" as it is colloquial language (words from everyday speech) and it is easy for the readers to understand. Jessie Pope uses colloquialism in a highly persuasive way,.
             " Who"ll give his country a hand?".
             Is very patriotic as everybody would like to think that they could support their country in some way. The next line is a metaphor for war,.
             " A turn to himself in a show " .
             This suggests fun and allays any fear. The last line is a comparison to football; you can either play football and join in on the fun or just spectate from a "seat in the stand". But this would consider cowardice, men who lack courage to join in. this shows that Jessie Pope is trying to brainwash the recruits it is as if they have to join up or people will think bad of them. Pope is glorifying war. Making war sound grand - sounding.
             Stanza 3 shows the way Jessie Pope converts a serious injury to a bit of fun,.
             "Who would rather come back with a crutch?.
             Than lie low and be out of the fun".
             This grim joke shows Jessie Pope's vulgar attitude to war. This is typical propaganda as this is far from the truth. Pope uses alliteration "lie low" which makes the poem memorable and makes the poem sound as if we should be glad about war.
             In the last stanza Pope gets more personal and intense. Pope uses emotional black mail in the third line,.
             "Your country is up to her neck in a fight".
             Pope compares the country to a helpless woman.
             "And she is looking and calling for you ".
             This is Pope's finale, her last chance to persuade the young men.


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1. War Poetry Post 1914

World war one began in 1914 and ended in 1918. ... As everyone was a volunteer in 1914 to 1915 Posters, magazines and poems helped to recruit young soldiers making war sound fun and heroic, classed as propaganda. ... Owen had an anti war attitude as he wrote poems about the truth at war. ... Pope is glorifying war. ... Owen wrote poetry to show is experience of war, he also wanted to obliterate the image of war that was created by Pope. ...

  • Word Count: 1280
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Thomas Eliot

From 1911 to 1914 Eliot was back at Harvard, USA, reading Indian philosophy and studying Sanskrit, but then he returned to France. After several years of residence in Europe and studies in Paris, in Munich, and at Merton College in Oxford, where he went to in August 1914 (after the World War I had broken out), Eliot decided to settle in England for good. ... After-war period Probably no other war in history had ever brought about such destructive spiritual crisis and total reappraisal of moral, cultural and social values as the World War I (1914 - 1918). ... In his creative work of the peri...

  • Word Count: 1915
  • Approx Pages: 8
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3. English Literature in the Twentieth century

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4. The Brilliance of T. S. Eliot

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6. All quiet on the western front

This was the general sentiment felt by Germans in the summer of 1914. ... The summer of 1914 also marked the beginning of a four year battle that would leave over "nine million dead and over twenty million wounded" (Axelrod, 20). ... The main character Paul Baumer is a compassionate and sensitive young man; before the war he loved his family, his books, and he even wrote poetry. ... None of them can answer questions about post war plans because they have no conception of themselves apart from the war. ... At the end of the war, "the future, whose promise had been so dazzling in August 1914, ...

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7. Endings

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8. Albert Einstein

Einstein's post-basic education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. ... Many scientists have said that Einstein's work contained an imaginative spirit that was seen in most poetry. ... It was not until 1914 that Einstein was tempted to return to Germany to become research director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. ... Toward the end of the war Einstein joined a political party that worked to end the war, and return peace to Europe. ... After the war ended, he declared, "The war is won, but the peace is not." ...

  • Word Count: 1516
  • Approx Pages: 6
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