The poem Who's for the game.
"Who would much rather come back with a crutch, than lie low and be
out of the fun?"
Throughout the poem "Who's for the game", Jessie Pope convinces many
soldiers to go to war by asking questions in every stanza. "Who's for
the game, the biggest thetas played, the red crashing game of a
fight?", she asks the reader in an excited tone, allowing the soldier
to have a very positive effect on war. 'Who wants to play in this
fight?', as if to say that the idea of war was nothing more than a
boxing game, which was a common sport in the era of world war two.
Most classes (even those who were rich) had more or less of an idea on
the rules concerning this particular sport, and were familiar with it.
The proposed idea of war being similar to boxing gives the reader (who
would have usually been a man in his youth) a sense of security, as he
would have seen war as a game where you can lose but retry until the
battle is won. Jessie Pope travels down a steady line of false hope in
this poem.
Wilfred Owen takes a rather different approach to his poems, through
his structure and style. His four stanzas each represent different
views, the first one being the overall image and scenery," Bent
double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock kneed.". Owen uses this
simile 'like old beggars', to portray the soldiers like hags, making
them seem week, poor and vulnerable to disease. His second stanza
shows what the consequences of war can be, in contrast to Pope's
"crutches", he tells of his comrade being suffocated by chlorine gas.
There is one thing that Owen talks about that is not mentioned in
Pope's poem - death. The third stanza shows Owen's past experience,
and the final stanza which is lar...
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...lie low
and be out of the fun", "Who thinks he'd rather sit tight" she
questions their masculinity. Every man would rather fight that be
labelled 'woman'. Pope summarises that war is just a big game, where
you win and celebrate.
The final personal message that Owen sends, unlike Pope, is that he
has had enough of war. He has turned his back on it and given up. "Of
tired outstripped five nines..", he suggests even the bombs are tired,
a good use of personification. Words in the first stanza such as,
"fatigue", "limped" and "distant rest" all give us the feeling that
everybody is tired and sick of fighting. They want to get back to
their "distant" homes. Owens last line really adds to his final
conclusion of war;
"The old lie, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori",
meaning 'You should die for you home country', is nothing more than a
falsification.
If you have ever read the book 1984 by George Orwell, then an interesting topic may have crossed your mind. The way the classes of people break down can be quite similar, and very different at times. In the United States, we have classes like the lower class, the working class, and the middle class. In 1984, there were such classes as the Proles, the Outer Party, and the Inner Party. The way the classes are broken down in 1984 reminds me a little bit of my old history class. When I studied medieval times and the classes back then were broken down into the nobles, the bourgeois, and the serfs.
Mantsios believes that Americans do not like to talk about the different classes, whether it is about the upper, middles or lower class. He outlines four myths that are widely held about class in the United States. Myth one the united states is fundamentally a classless society, myth two we are, essentially a middle class nation. Most Americans have achieved relative affluence in what is widely recognized as a consumer society. Myth three we are all getting richer. Each generation propels itself to greater economic well-being. And myth four, everyone has an equal chance to succeed. Requires no more than hard work sacrifice and perseverance (Mantsios).
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Social Classes Throughout History The gap between different classes has always been very prominent in
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known, war is not a game where you may loose points but where it is
but also that the members of this class have different values than that of the upper class and are
The upper class developed the eElite American Culturef which gave them the view that they were superior to the others around them. They also developed a bad view of lower class people as they did not mix with them.
...nstead of continuing a cycle of death, frustration and violence, people should move past others’ imperfections, and should work together to form mutual agreements. Although this may not permanently eliminate wars, it could help prevent them, and help prevent soldiers from losing touch with the reality of death.
There are eight classes in America consisting of the rich elite, very rich-upper class, lower-upper class, upper-middle class, middle class, working class, working poor and the underclass. The percentages of families in the various classes as established by Gilbert are thought to be 1.4 percent in the upper top class, 1.6 percent in the lower top class. 1...
In his essay “Land of Opportunity” James W. Loewen details the ignorance that most American students have towards class structure. He bemoans the fact that most textbooks completely ignore the issue of class, and when it does it is usually only mentions middle class in order to make the point that America is a “middle class country. This is particularly grievous to Loewen because he believes, “Social class is probably the single most important variable in society. From womb to tomb, it correlates with almost all other social characteristics of people that we can measure.” Loewen simply believes that social class usually determine the paths that a person will take in life. (Loewen 203)
Also it is comparing the war to a game, which is a euphemism as well as a metaphor. It is a euphemism because war is a very serious, dangerous matter; whereas a game is something that people enjoy and never get seriously injured in. By using this euphemism, Jessie Pope - the poet – lessens the severity of war, and makes her readers’ think of it as enjoyable, and something that they want to do.
War has always been, and will always be, a necessary action perpetrated by man. There are many reasons for war: rage, passion, greed, defense, and religion to name a few. When differences cannot be solved or compromised through mediation with an opposing party, war is the last remaining option. Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun wrote in fourteenth-century Spain, that “War is a universal and inevitable aspect of life, ordained by God to the same extent as the sky and the earth, the heat and the cold. The question of whether to fright is not a significant moral question because fighting is constant; the minor decision not to fight this war will be made only in the context of knowing that another war will present itself soon enough because it is simply always there.” (Peter S. Themes. The Just War)
...oolish, and War is a waste. War is brother, War is dad, War is mother crying, and War is sad. War is death, War is tears, and Wars don't end. They last for years!
Langston Hughes is the author of the poem ‘trumpet player’ among other poems that weaves in the contemporary ideas relating to racial issues, past memories and jazz music (Alexander and Ferris 55). Essentially, his themes centered on African- American made him an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The poet was born in Joplin, Missouri in the year 1902. His first work on poetry was published in the year 1921 (Baird 599). From there on, he wrote innumerable works of poetry, plays as well as proses (Baird 599). The poet died in the year 1967 out of prostate cancer complications. The trumpet player is one of the most important works done by Hughes. The title of the poem introduces the scene but it is quite figurative. At its face value, the title