Response to Poetry of the Revolution

After reading both of these articles you can really tell to difference in time between the two authors. F.T. Marinetti Wrote his piece at a time when the idea of Avant Garde Was just beginning he talked with an enthusiasm the felt roughly contagious. He denied any power of the past in the future which seemed to me a little bit naive but also in the new ideas he presented. Such as The the abolition of the old ideas of women as, " Reservoir of love, engine of lust ...Fragile women.... WHose dreamy tresses reach out and mingle with the foliage of forest bathed in the moonlight" speaks truths to me. I believe for me this fused with my horizon ( which i believe is interchangable with bias) as Dick Higgins talked about, because i believe if women were to ever attain true equality they would have to let go of the crutch of these Past ideas that they so often use for their own benefit While at the same time cursing us for treating them that way. A lot of the ideas resonated with me from Marinetti, except his refusal to admit that the past can teach us a good amount i thought it to be moving but not convincing that he even saw himself as being castaway and all his works burned by future minds. The past always will be a sum that adds up to the future and to believe that it has no forbearance does not add up. Anyways he was wrong this whole class is reading his work in a way to explore and explain What is avant garde. THis ties in to what higgins wrote about Names of Movements not being the actual important thing but the work that came from that movement. in that sense i believe the past gives you the steps to climb to the horizon, giving you the possibility to step over the edge into the avant garde.