Read the excerpt below and answer the question. the news would pour out of various devices interrupted by attempts to sell products to the 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”? a. it suggests that the poem is set at an earlier time. b. it to create a mechanical, robotic tone in the poem. c. it emphasizes the speaker’s feeling of detachment toward the war. d. it creates a metaphor comparing humanity to manufactured objects.

The correct answer is C. It emphasizes the speaker’s feeling of detachment towards the war. 

Muriel Rukeyser was an American poet and political activist. Her work “Poem” is a reflection of the feelings most people her age had a the time: it felt like the world had been constantly at war for their entire lives.
This particular excerpt is referring to the war in Vietnam, which is said to be a TV-fought War. Initiated by "careless" people who felt no responsibility to tell the truth, and people only later realized that numbers told by the medias were false, and they have been lied to for the entire time.