... Specifically he wrote the poem to counteract her poem "Who's For The Game?". Owen felt that Pope did not comprehend the seriousness of the war in her portrayal of the battle as a rugby game. Pope conveyed the participants of the "game" were admirable and those who sat on the sidelines shunned and disregarded. ... know more about the horrors that war brings than the female poet, who could only be permitted to watch from the outside of her competitive yet carefree game of rugby? Personally, I think he would. At the time, Owen was put into a psychiatric hospital because the war had so badl...

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... civilians exactly what happened in those lice ridden, muddy trenches and to show them that Jessie Pope was completely wrong. The message of their poems being that war is no game with marching, clean uniformed soldiers, glory and dignity, that war is not something to do if you want to impress people and gain their respect. To make civilians see that ... either of the men could to to stop it happening. In this stanza, the focus of the poem changes as the narrator is feeling guilty and helpless. The fourth and final stanza is Owens's passionate appeal to those who remain at home not to enc...

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