9/16 Blog

I found that whether Italian or Russian or any ethnicity for that matter people like Marinetti and Khlebnikov were just like most people today, egotistical. Even though Marinetti had been writing his ideas for some time and there were clear references from Marinetti and Italian futurist ideas the Russians refused to admit otherwise. I found it interesting to watch the rivalry between the ideals of people like Marinetti or the Russian futurists who in their poetry often called for something of a revolution yet communist Russia seemed to mock their ideas, trying to show themselves as the true revolutionists. This article was much clearer cut than most of our readings and there was one person I felt who I could truly relate with. Shklovsky said about futurist poetry, “ This is an incomprehensible and difficult language; one cannot read it as one reads a newspaper, but our demand that poetic language be understandable is too much a habit.”