Sheila SadrProfessor D. VipondEnglish 250B2 December 2014“Glory Of Women”: The Estrangement Of The Sexes In The Great WarThe role of women has been illustrated in many different ways in world literature of the first war. Women are seen as young nurses who save soldiers' lives, underpaid factory workers, desperate and lovelorn mothers in several popular works. Composed in 1918 during the Great War, Siegfried Sassoon's poem “Women's Glory” denounces English women who romanticize the death and battle of soldiers abroad and gain vicarious gratification from war. Many scholars argue that this poem is the first in anti-women literature as it talks about a war-torn soldier's resentment of men's role in the war being death and a horrible battle while women would stay in their home country and play to pretend that everything was normal and the same. . Very few women were informed of the suffering and hardships that all men faced during the war effort. So it was at this point in the story that the men who had the very title "Glory of Women" intended to drag readers into an entertaining poem that would seem to be about the magnificent female sex. Of course, Sassoon doesn't follow suit in these expectations. The word “glory” is often identified with the connotation of beauty and spiritual and miraculous importance. The placement of the word within the title is clearly ironic since from the beginning of the poem Sassoon criticizes women's behaviors and attitudes towards the Great War. Another example is when Sasson describes the soldiers' comrades who sympathize with them only as heroes, but do not "'retreat' when the final horror of hell breaks them" (9 - 10). They see the Great War as something romantic and full of harmless danger and chivalry when, in reality, it is full of "trampled corpses", "horror" and "blood"." (10 -