What feeling did Stephen Crane create from The Red Badge of Courage in writing The cold passed reluctantly from the earth and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills resting?

Answer 1

It uses personification twice, between Earth, the hills, and the Army soldiers all "stretched out", and the cold, the fog, and the men "stretched out" on the hills "resting". The second (the cold, the fog, stretched out, "resting") brings an image of death, of being "stretched out resting" or "laid out" for a funeral viewing, even if at the time no one was dead yet in the story. Altogether, it brings a feeling of foreboding, of an unfolding of events that cannot be stopped, and that is beyond any one person's power to control the outcome.