Read these lines from “Grass” by Carl Sandburg.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work—
I am the grass; I cover all.

How does the personification in these lines affect the poem?


It suggests that the grass consumes the tragedies of war so the living can move on.

It implies that nature plays its role in helping man bury those who lost their lives in war.

It portrays the grass as a being without any empathy for all the lives lost in war.

It explains that nature takes over the landscape once the war has ended.