The difference in the rhetoric of the poet and the president is that a poet is supposed to change his voice. If the poet had only one voice then their poetry would be even more boring than it is to read now. If a poet had one voice then there wouldnt be any reason to read more than one of their poems. Changing their voice makes a poet a poet. A poet has the ability to take their reader different places and experience different things because of their writing abilities. Its a poets job to lie and stretch the truth otherwise it wouldnt be interesting. A tree would be just a tree, not something "glittering in the wind"
A president on the other hand should not change his voice. If he does then it makes his voters wonder what he is actually telling the truth about. He should only have one voice, the truth. If hes lying to please all people then that isnt doing anyone any good.
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