Part one of term paper
World War One, or the Great War as it was sometimes known, took place between 1914 and 1918. During this time there were many emotions shown by people of all walks of life. Emotions, which could only be brought out by a catastrophe with the magnitude of World War One. Only those who had experienced the bravery shown by the soldiers and had s ...

Part two of term paper
... recruits they would be heroes when they returned, victorious. There was so much pressure on the ‘boys’ (‘who were soon to become men’) to join the army, with the many recruitment devices such as posters and famously, the poems by Jessie Pope. Pope wrote from the safety of her own home, as a civilian. She had not had any first hand experience of war. In fact, it seems that she had absolutely no idea about what war was like. It was poets like her who had a large influence over the public. Her ...