Answer:
The poem is about the heat and how the person wants it go away because of the damages it causes. Due to the heat "fruit cannot drop," the person wants to "cut apart the heat." The speakers tone is demanding and angry. The speaker desperately want to get rid of the heat. "O wind, rend' open the heat, cut apart the heat, rend it to tatters."
4. They were trying to influence the readers, which were mainly the American Colonists and the citizens of countries like England.
5. The readers might not have gotten the point they were trying to make. The repetitive sentences kind of enforced the point they were making.
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