The speaker is speaking in first person point of view by speaking about the other characters in the story
I believe that the choice we have is between "inform", "persuade", "entertain", etc: and I would say that here the purpose is to persuade. It's not an objective sentence only giving information, rather it tries to persuade people to choose this product over another one.
2. listening to how the poem is read will determine the feelings of the poem
No two texts have the same or similiar view points
