... winds that knive us...' This line shows the 'merciless'/evil wind, nature, to have premeditated causing a pain to the soldiers. This, and that the wind causes a physical pain, 'ache', to the soldiers personifies the weather. The diction in this line, for example, the repetition of s sounds, called sibilance, represents the sound of the wind. It can be associated to hissing sounds, which we relate to a cat in anger and fright. This again personifies the wind and is in correlation with the soldiers feelings. In the fourth stanza, Owen again uses nature to represent a force fighting against the soldiers, 'Flights of bullets...Less deathly than...snow,' This plainly shows that the weather is worse for the soldiers than the 'flights of bullets'; which, when described as flights are likened to birds and therefore nature. This can be shown to mean that the weather is the worst of natures ills, although this, ...

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