Comparing WWI Poems: Jessie Pope's 'The Call' and Wilfred Owen's Poem

This literature review compares two poems from World War I: Jessie Pope's 'The Call' and Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est'. The review analyzes Pope's poem as a piece of patriotic propaganda designed to encourage enlistment, highlighting its use of emotive language and positive framing of war. It contrasts this with Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum Est,' which critiques the horrors of war, drawing on Roman poetic lines and emphasizing the harsh realities faced by soldiers. The review also references GZA's 'Living in the World Today' to provide context and contrasts the themes and styles of the poems. The analysis examines the poems' structures, language, and intended messages, offering insights into their differing perspectives on war and their impact on readers. The review concludes by summarizing the key differences in tone, purpose, and literary techniques used by each poet to convey their respective viewpoints.

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Literature Review
3/26/2020

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Comparing two poems from World War I: Jessie Pope's "The Call" and Wilfred Owen's
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
Jessie Pope's "The Call"
It is the emotive poem which was written by Jessie Pope to persuade men to enlist. It was the
famous poem at the time of the jingoistic war as this poem has saved England by exhorting
young men to enlist. His poem has motivated the men to join the forces and to fight against the
war (Stallworthy, 2014). This poem is the positive propaganda that was motivating the young
men to involve in the war. The poem used no cacophony but in line 19 there is the use assonance
by saying “Who’ll earn the Empire thanks”. The rhyming of the poem is good and there was the
term ladle which was repeated three times and indicating that men will go to the war and have
victories. The phrase in the poem is the young man which translates as the diminutive and used
to personalize the poem.
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
The main indication of this poem is that a person should ready to die for the country and it is the
sweet and the right thing. As per this poem, it is the honor to die for the country. The poem was
written during the WWI era, where the Roman poetic lines have been derived. This poem is one
of the anthologized and memorable poems in Owen's oeuvre (Kousar, 2016). The poem was
written in 1917 which was representing the battlefield into both history courses and literature.
The structure of the poem is the combination of the two sonnets where the spacing between the
two is irregular. A sort of message has been written to the poet Jessie Pope in which the first Para
is dedicated to her. The best quote of the Wilfred Owen is that “All a poet can do today is
warn.”
GZA's "Living in the World Today”
The lyric is representing the truth about the Arab war which was raised against the Jes of Israel.
Gaza. Gaza is the country that is populated by Palestinians but it is the strip of land that is
surrounded by Israel. The military presence was there which was used to have by Israel but in
2005 it withdrew unilaterally. Hamas is the group of Islamic who governed the Gaza. The Gaza
was the takeover by the Hamas and they were making the weapons to use against Israel. There

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were several numbers of military operations has launched in Gaza by Israel in the land and air
campaign. The sound choices of this video are best on the classical Liquid Swords Album. It is
the solo studio by American rapper which contains the background vocals from RZA and
Method Man. The sound effects are of vocals, loops, serum presets, drums, etc. which have set
the sound effect of the studio.
References
Kousar, R., Sarfraz, N. and Qasim, K., 2016. Expressionist Analysis Of Wilfred Owen’s Poems:
Anthem For Doomed Youth, Dulce Et Decorum Est, A Terre, Futility And Strange
Meeting. International Journal of English and Education, 5(2), pp.68-80. Available at:
http://ecite.utas.edu.au/122992
GZA's "Living in the World Today", 2016. Israeli settlements. Available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0uLbeQlwjw Accessed on: 26 March 2020.
Stallworthy, J., 2014. Anthem for doomed youth: Twelve soldier poets of the First World War.
Hachette UK.