Jessie Pope: War Poetry Literary Elements

The poem "War Girls’’ is told from the perspective of a third person objective point of view.

The poem "Who’s for the Game’’ is written in a heroic couplet.

In the poem "War Girls’’, the war is compared with a very complicated game in which everyone must play a part. The reason why the narrator compared war with a game is to convince the readers to get more involved in the war effort and to do everything they can to help those on the front.

We find an alliteration in the line "Strong, sensible, and fit,/ They're out to show their grit,’’ in the poem ‘’War Girls’’.

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The poems analyzed are meditative and patriotic poems.

Because the poem ‘’Who’s for the Game’’ is a meditative poem through which the narrator addresses the reader through a series of questions, there is no time and place mentioned in relation with the action described.

The tone used in the poem ‘’War Girls’’ is an upbeat and positive one which inspires confidence.

Because these are war poems, the protagonists are the soldiers coming from the same country as the narrator while the antagonists are the opposite side.

The major conflict in ‘’Who’s for the Game’’ is presented as being between indifference and a patriotic spirit.

The poem ‘’No!’’ reaches its climax when the narrator claims she will never stop to support her country and the war effort.

The title of the poem ‘’No!’’ foreshadows the sense of patriotic desire and the narrator advice addressed to the reader to not give up on the war and on trying to help those who went to war for their country.

In the beginning of the poem ‘’No!’’ the narrator claims no soldier is ‘’down their luck’’, implying every soldier will be able to return home safely. This is an understatement because later the narrator described the countless soldiers killed in battle.

The thing alludes in the poem ‘’War Girls’’ is the idea that women are just as capable as men and are more than qualified to perform any type of task a person may think of. This is done by the mentioning of various jobs which during the World Wars were usually done by men. Because many countries suffered a shortage of men, women had to take over those roles. This proved women are just as capable and as talented as every other man on this planet.

The term ‘’show’’ is used in the poem ‘’Who’s for the Game?’’ as a term to make reference to the activities which can support the war effort.

We find personification in the line ‘’echoing chant in the hearts’’ in the poem ‘’No!’’.

We find hyperbole in the line ‘’red crashing game of a fight’’ in the poem ‘’Who’s for the Game?’’

We find onomatopoeia in the line ‘’the girl who cries’’ in the poem ‘’War Girls’’.