Poem Explication

The poem I've decided to analyze is called "Woman and War" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The poem is about World War I through a woman's perspective. The poem starts by comparing dogs and humans, "let dogs delight to bark and bite" which is basically saying let dogs be dogs by being ruff and act in their true nature. But, it then says that humans have to rise above the brute and have self-control to not fight one another, the poet explains that this is what we teach our children. The problem then comes in the second stanza when it's said "And then - dear God! you men, you wise, strong men, Our self-announced superiors in brain, Our peers in judgement, you go forth to war!" Wilcox is saying that after everything we've taught to young children about the wrong of hurting each other is all thrown away when the men of the nation, who the children look up to, do the exact opposite of what they were taught as children. She ends the poem by saying that if war is what the world has come to, then maybe women should raise their children from birth to be killers.
Honestly, I really liked this poem. It made me see a different perspective of war. At the bottom of the second stanza, Wilcox says that women battle everyday like men but their battle is uncertainty. She goes on to say "And when at best your victories reach our ears, There reaches with them to our pitying hearts The thought of countless homes made desolate And other women weeping for their dead." I had never thought about victories this way before I read these lines, and what she's basically saying is that even though the news of victory is brought to their side, on the other side there are women who had the same worries as their side and now have to face the news that their men are never coming home.