The poem I picked to reflect on was the poem “Glory of Women” written by Siegfried Sassoon. This poem stood out to me because it focuses on the relationship between women who were at home during the war. When reading Not So Quiet, one of my favorite aspects was the relationship between Helen and her mother. In the novel, Helen harbored a lot of resentment towards her mother’s positive and ignorant attitude towards the war. In this poem, I can feel that same resentment in this soldier.  The first line of the poem discusses how they love soldiers visiting on leave, and near the end of the poem, he writes how they don’t approve of soldiers retiring. These women believe an honorable soldier should never cower from the war.  However, Siegfried does a wonderful job in showing their ignorance.  He follows the line about their disbelief with a description of a battle. These two lines are haunting, with him describing the battle as “hell’s last horror” and “trampling terrible corpse-blind with blood” (Sassoon lines 10-11).  Like in Not So Quiet, by contrasting the two viewpoints of the people at the front and the women back home, it does a good job of showing the disconnect between the soldiers and their homes. How, even when the war is over, they still feel isolated by society, as no one other than the people at the front will understand the horrors they went through.