This article examines the characteristics of poetic works written during the Great Patriotic War – poems created urgently, as required by the moment, often to fulfill a combat mission. This determined their pronounced journalistic quality (relevance to the current moment, attention drawn to a specific event that had just occurred or was expected in the near future, etc.), imperativeness, and a number of other qualities that contribute to the poetic function of influencing the addressee – usually a mass audience. This type of poem, which constitutes frontline lyrics (frontline poetry), in the author’s opinion, should be classified as a distinct genre and stylistic variety, designated as appeal poems and / or mandate poems, which it would be appropriate to analyze somewhat differently, than more traditional genre forms of lyric poetry. In this case, the priority considerations are the compositional design of the work and the grammatical devices employed by the author, primarily morphological ones (various verb forms, primarily in the imperative mood; pronouns, etc.). These speech devices and methods of organizing speech material ensure the effective implementation of the persuasive function—in this case, the fundamental for the analyzed poems.