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| | Literary Encyclopedia: Futurism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Thus, from the first manifesto onwards, the Futurists vied to devise the most sneering attacks on the culture of museums, regarded as akin to cemeteries for art, and to outline the purest aesthetics of speed, modernity and power. |
 | | The 1909 manifesto's opening narrative of departure and rebirth, as Marinetti races off in his automobile only to crash into a ditch filled with factory waste, with its subsequent aestheticisation of the industrial and the urban, set the pattern for the imagery and tone of all subsequent Futurist works. |
 | | Hence, many Futurist poems retain fairly traditional forms, only distinguished by an extravagant use of machine imagery and terminology which is explicitly opposed to the language of nature conventionally used in lyrical verse, and where technology ultimately informs the poem's subject matter crowds, cars, aeroplanes, trains more than its form. |
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