or sinking as the light wind lives or dies which best identifies and interprets the use of the underlined poetic device?

The "D) Personification; The stillness and gusts of the wind are described as its life and death" option is best identifies and interprets the use of the underlined poetic device. This poetic device described the poet selection of figurative to put a tone in the poem. A personification is a form of figurative which gives human's characteristic to an object.