Complete Study Guide for Who's For the Game? by Jessie Pope

The Great Game: An Analysis of Wartime Propaganda

• This complete guides provides a rigorous examination of Jessie Pope’s "Who’s for the Game?"a seminal example of World War I recruitment literature.Through the lens of jingoism, these resources deconstruct the sophisticated linguistic and psychological tactics used to drive voluntary enlistment during a period of significant military losses.
• Deconstructing the "Game" Metaphor: An exploration of how Pope utilised an extended metaphor to reframe a global catastrophe as a prestigious athletic competition.This analysis highlights the use of superlatives (the "biggest" game) and euphemisms ("red crash") to sanitise the lethal violence of the trenches
• Structural Manipulation: A study of the poem’s anapaestic meter and AABB rhyme scheme. This section explains how the "sing-song" rhythm served as a tool of deception, masking the grim reality of conflict with the tone of a nursery rhyme or cheer.
• The Psychology of Persuasion: An investigation into the use of rhetorical questions and emotional blackmail.The materials examine how Pope personified Britain as a "damsel in distress" to appeal to chivalric duty, while simultaneously shaming men who hesitated to enlist by labeling them as cowardly "spectators".