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Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

The news would pour out of various devices

Interrupted by attempts to sell products to the uns

unseen .

I would call my friends on other devices:

They would be more or less mad for similar reasons.

What is the effect of Ruckeyser's repetition of the word "devices" in the first and third lines of "Poem"?

It creates a metaphor comparing humanity to manufactured objects.

It suggests that the poem is set at an earlier time.

It helps to create a mechanical, robotic tone in the poem.

It emphasizes the speaker's feeling of detachment toward the war.

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Answer:

it would be "it emphasizes on the speaker's feeling of detachment towards the war"

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Answer:

It helps to create a mechanical, robotic tone in the poem.

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt shown in the question above, the speaker is referring to the interference of industry and media devices during the war. The speaker shows that in the midst of the war and all the madness it imposes on the industry, it promotes more madness, with a cacophony of devices that show news, sell products and establish connections and communications between friends. The rator is insane when exposed to so many devices and it emits a robotic, artificial and uncomfortable tone.

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