LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY
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“We want to sing the love of danger, the habit of danger and of temerity.”
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“The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, daring, and revolt.”
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“We want to sing the man who holds the steering wheel, whose ideal stem pierces the Earth, itself launched on the circuit of its orbit.”
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“We want never to glorify war, the scourge of the planet.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Futurism, Italian Futurismo, Russian Futurizm, early 20th-century artistic movement centred in Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “Manifesto of Futurism, ” written by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and published on the front page of the French newspaper Le Figaro on February 20, 1909, proclaimed the burning desire of the author and his fellow Futurists to abandon the past and embrace the future.
Detailed explanation-3: -Its members sought to capture the idea of modernity, the sensations and aesthetics of speed, movement, and industrial development.
Detailed explanation-4: -The original Futurist manifesto of 1909, written by Marinetti, exalted the beauty of the machine and the new technology of the automobile, with its speed, power, and movement. The Futurists glorified violence and conflict and called for the destruction of cultural institutions such as museums and libraries.