World War One Poetry.
L/O: Learning to understand the importance of context to poetry
Copy the statements and add a score out of five depending on your confidence with the subject (5 = really confident)
1. I can identify similes and metaphors.2. I can identify enjambment and alliteration in poems.3. I know the effect of similes and metaphors.4. I can write about poems using pee.5. I can explain why the context of a poem is important to
the understanding of the poem.6. I can compare two poems confidently.7. I can explain the different purposes of a poem using
evidence to support my ideas.8. I can evaluate a poem and justify my views using
evidence.
Revision of poetic terms: Draw in back of book.
Poetic term Definition
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Enjambment
Alliteration
Stanza
Onomatopoeia
The context of WW1
• What do you know about WW1?
• In pairs make a list of any information that you know.
(5min)
Some information
• 1914-1918• Fought between Germany and England/France/
Belgium and other Allied countries.• Mainly fought in Trenches.• British war dead:• About 880,000 men from the United Kingdom,
plus a further 200,000 from other countries in the British Empire and Commonwealth. German dead: approximately 1,808,000
Some video context of WW1
• Over the top
• The sniper
• The end
Some of the dead.
The men were convinced to fight through effective propaganda.
How are these effective?
Now read the poem ‘Who’s for the game’ (Jessie Pope)
• Who’s for the game, the biggest that’s played, The red crashing game of a fight? Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid? And who thinks he’d rather sit tight? Who’ll toe the line for the signal to ‘Go!’? Who’ll give his country a hand? Who wants a turn to himself in the show? And who wants a seat in the stand? Who knows it won’t be a picnic – not much- Yet eagerly shoulders a gun? Who would much rather come back with a crutch Than lie low and be out of the fun? Come along, lads – But you’ll come on all right – For there’s only one course to pursue, Your country is up to her neck in a fight, And she’s looking and calling for you.
Who’s for the game?
• In pairs decide how this poem persuades people to join up:
• Do you think that it successfully achieves its purpose? How?
• Who is this poem targeting?
• What does it compare war to and how?
• Which techniques can you find?
Choose one of the following:
• Either write your own enlisting poem/verse.
• Or
• Design your own Recruiting poster based around the ideas in the poem.