What is the connection between Wilfred Owen and Jessie pope?

Answer 1

For Irony, Jesssie Pope wrote the poem, who's for the game which encouraged soildiers to join the army by making it glorious. He was very angry and decided to contend the view by voicing that young men were dying and it wasn't glorious at all.

Answer 2

Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope were both poets during World War I, but with very different views. Owen criticized the glorification of war in Pope's poems and sought to convey the harsh realities of combat through his own work. Pope's poetry was often pro-war and aimed to rally public support for the war effort.