I can’t help but note that Poetry such as “ The Glory of Women” fail to express a very overlooked truth about the casualties of war. Women may be depicted as blind to the hell these brave men face in war, but few understand that they face the same thing in worrying about sons, lovers, siblings, ect. While I understand that men of the British empire, especially those who hold the prestigious position of a ship’s captain, are thought to bear the worries that come with things like war, so over looked is the reality that this burden knows no gender. While Sassoon criticizes women for romanticizing men and war, he fails to point out that they tend to those wounded in battle and witness their untimely deaths. In short, the misconception of war’s true nature is one that is shared, but not expressed equally. Women may not understand the horrors of war from the perspective of a young man who witnesses it directly, but men don’t understand that women witness war’s horrors in other ways. The loss of a husband, a good friend, a sibling, or even a parent, puts them beside their male counterparts more subtly. I believe feminism will eventually bring this fact to light and change the British empire as we know it. Perhaps the way we look at how we trade and carry out matters of business will change as well. Such changes may even bring about a difference in the risks we take in the name of progress. With new concepts such as this gaining more and more ground today, I wonder what their presence will mean to the empire’s future. Will men such as myself still command fearless crews of other men across the skies? What other changes will these new ways of thinking bring about?

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