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?

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

2) It suggests that the grass consumes the tragedies of war so the living can

3) implies that nature plays its role in helping man bury those who lost their

4) It portrays the grass as a being without any empathy for all the lives lost in