He's trying to keep away the grasshoppers from the farm
The theme of the poem is basically the American Discrimination. Discrimination is basically is a term which is used to define the difference b/w two groups on the base of some qualities etc. For example the American Discrimination was between black and white people.
That extreme kind of exaggeration in speech is the literary device known as hyperbole.
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