An objection to the implied-metaphor account is that, if a figurative agent is treated as resembling the real agent in every respect, undesirable consequences may follow that the utterance never intended.
Examples:
1. “Spring caused the grass to grow”: treating spring as an independently powerful agent.
2. “Seeing you delighted me”: treating the act of seeing as autonomous in all senses.
3. “O Hāmān, build for me”: treating an overseer as necessarily performing all manual labor.
The key concern is not to import every external implication into a rhetorical comparison. A likeness may be intended in one aspect and not in all possible attributes.