{"id":2570,"date":"2016-11-28T03:41:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T03:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.lycee.nl\/?page_id=2570"},"modified":"2016-11-28T05:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T05:46:01","slug":"jessie-pope-the-call","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/?page_id=2570","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Pope, The Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope&#8217;s war poetry was originally published in <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"The Daily Mail\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Daily_Mail\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">The Daily Mail<\/span><\/u><\/a><\/i>; it encouraged <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Enlistment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enlistment\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">enlistment<\/span><\/u><\/a> and handed a <a title=\"White feather\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_feather\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">white feather<\/span><\/u><\/a> to youths who would not join the colours. Nowadays, this poetry is considered to be <a title=\"Jingoism\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jingoism\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">jingoistic<\/span><\/u><\/a>, consisting of simple rhythms and rhyme schemes, with extensive use of rhetorical questions to persuade (and sometimes pressure) young men to join the war.<\/p>\n<p>Pope was widely published during the war, apart from newspaper publication producing three volumes: <i>Jessie Pope&#8217;s War Poems<\/i> (1915), <i>More War Poems<\/i> (1915) and <i>Simple Rhymes for Stirring Times<\/i> (1916).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Call<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"rendered poem_body\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Who&#8217;s for the trench\u2014<br \/>\nAre you, my laddie?<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll follow French\u2014<br \/>\nWill you, my laddie?<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s fretting to begin,<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s going out to win?<br \/>\nAnd who wants to save his skin\u2014<br \/>\nDo you, my laddie?Who&#8217;s for the khaki suit\u2014<br \/>\nAre you, my laddie?<br \/>\nWho longs to charge and shoot\u2014<br \/>\nDo you, my laddie?<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s keen on getting fit,<br \/>\nWho means to show his grit,<br \/>\nAnd who&#8217;d rather wait a bit\u2014<br \/>\nWould you, my laddie?Who&#8217;ll earn the Empire&#8217;s thanks\u2014<br \/>\nWill you, my laddie?<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll swell the victor&#8217;s ranks\u2014<br \/>\nWill you, my laddie?<br \/>\nWhen that procession comes,<br \/>\nBanners and rolling drums\u2014<br \/>\nWho&#8217;ll stand and bite his thumbs\u2014<br \/>\nWill you, my laddie?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri,serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope&#8217;s war poetry was originally published in The Daily Mail; it encouraged enlistment and handed a white feather to youths who would not join the colours. Nowadays, this poetry is considered to be jingoistic, consisting of simple rhythms and rhyme schemes, with extensive use of rhetorical questions to persuade (and sometimes pressure) young men to<span class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2579,"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2570\/revisions\/2579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrglackin.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}