Read the excerpt below and answer the question. The news would pour out of various devices Interrupted by attempts to sell produ
cts 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”?
The repetition of the word devices makes the reader feel like all of technology is the same, lumped into one category. He doesn't separate television from cell phone, and this makes the reader feel like all technology is meant to accomplish the same goal, no matter what it says its purpose is. Also, the word "device" shows that the people behind it have an agenda, that they are using these pieces of technology as "devices" to achieve a goal.
