The speaker had a specific identity. He was A.H.'s friend and this was the way he mourned him. No one else mourned him with those words. No one else shared the same experiences with A.H. The I may be known to the reader but that doesn't matter. The I is expressing his personal grief in his poems.
Explanation:
The Blue Ridge Mountains are a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Mountains range. The mountain range is located in the eastern United States, and extends 550 miles southwest from southern Pennsylvania through Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.[1] This province consists of northern and southern physiographic regions, which divide near the Roanoke River gap.[2] To the west of the Blue Ridge, between it and the bulk of the Appalachians, lies the Great Appalachian Valley, bordered on the west by the Ridge and Valley province of the Appalachian range.
Answer:
If it is argumentative: to prove a point. If it is informational: to inform.