Russian Futurism

Maykovsky’s “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste” left me a little confused with one point regarding poets’ revered rights; “to feel an insurmountable hatred for the language existing before their time.” This statement left me confused because without building on past languages we would have nothing to communicate with presently. I do understand that Futurists are against past beliefs and history but I do not feel that language should be grouped in with that. Language gives people the ability to communicate and express ideas, opinions and thoughts. Without this, what would we be left with? No futurist would have the ability to speak out and communicate their ideas. Futurism is not based off logic, but this right seems a little far-fetched. The poetry of Russian Futurism also left me confused. It seems poorly translated. I have never been an expert with poetry by any means but I honestly cannot even begin to imagine what the interpretation is for the third “suprasyntactic zaum” poem.