What do you mean by "a group of hardworking cleaners"? Is the broom there?

When correcting homework, the teacher pointed out the autumn wind to a group of hardworking cleaners, and the broom also pointed to the autumn wind, which was considered correct. But I think broom also refers to autumn wind, I beg to differ. In this sentence, the autumn wind is personified, indicating action, and the broom is the broom, so it is wrong for the poet to put the word broom in double quotation marks. How does autumn wind raise "autumn wind" in one sentence? ...