When You see Millions of the Mouthless Dead Pg. 849

The general argument made by Charles Hamilton Sorley in his work When you see Millions of the Mouthless Dead, is that in war you see many people die and it is really hard to deal with. More specifically Sorley suggests that death takes many people in the war. He writes, “Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, it is a spook. None wears the face you knew. Great death has made all his for evermore.  (Pg.849)” in this passage Sorley is suggesting that you see many people die and when you see someone you love die, it doesn’t even look like them. In conclusion, it is Sorley’s belief that it is very hard to watch many people that you know and love die in the war.

In my view I think that Sorley is right because I can only imagine what it would be like to watch that many people die. It would be very scarring. For example some people come back from the war and have post-traumatic stress from killing people, and from watching so many people get killed. I feel bad for all the soldiers that have to watch people die. Therefore I conclude, that it is ok for people to be sad when they lost someone that they worked with.