personification
The literary term used here is "personification," as nature is portrayed as having a wild hand that can be wrested from.
Wrested is a verb. It's the past tense of wrest.
The terrorist wrested the screaming baby from his crying mother's arms.
Where Their Caravan Was Wrested - 1915 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U
Taken from someone by force.
a lot
You can call a person with strong willpower to do the work they have been given a "dedicated and determined individual."
During the Punic Wars Rome wrested control from Carthage of the islands of Sicily , Sardinia and Corsica .
To deprive someone or a group of people of the possession of occupancy of something.
Arkansas and Michigan became states while he was President, but you would probably give him more credit for adding Florida, which he wrested from Spanish control during the Seminole War.
While it is not entirely the case, Henry VIII is often credited with founding or establishing the Church of England for having in 1534 wrested control of the Church away from the Pope in Rome.
Satan? - I think we can do better than that: America's leading gunpowder manufacturer as well as weapons makers and war suppliers. After that obvious beginning the Industrial North would be next as the war not only destroyed the price structure of commodities insuring low prices on raw materials and food, but also wrested control of the U.S. government from the Agrarian Tradition beginning with the Founding Fathers.
you can call him a "dwayner," after corporate mogul Dwayne Densmore, who single handley wrested control of several fortune 500 companies from their boards. it's what most people use.