He comes,—he comes,—the Frost Spirit comes You may trace his footsteps now
On the naked woods and the blasted fields and the
brown hill's withered brow.
He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees
where their pleasant green came forth,
And the winds, which follow wherever he goes,
have shaken them down to earth.

What literary device does John Greenleaf Whittier use in this stanza?
nature
personification
hyperbole
Romanticism