Mina Loy and Futurism - 1636 Words

Mina Loy and Futurism Mina Loy, a futurist and modernist poet, uses graphic and uncensored depictions to portray art as a violent force. I believe from the excerpt of poems read in class from Loy’s book The Lost Lunar Baedeker, she conceptualizes art in her poems through futuristic themes of speed, violence, rejection of the past, and urban scenes. Her poems are an insight into the modernist movement and a revolt against traditional views that embrace a new prospective on the importance of art during the movement. Loy depicts speed in her poems â€Å"Brancusi’s Golden Bird.† â€Å"Oh Hell† embraces violence, the future, and rejection of the past. â€Å"Apology of Genius† describes urban scenes and the coming of the future. Futuristic images come alive in†¦show more content†¦In â€Å"O Hell,† Loy suggest that the rules and instruction of the Realist and the Romantics be buried, when she states, â€Å"bury the subconscious archives under unaffected flower s,† (71). Like any other futurist, Loy wants to rid everything of the past, the memories and teachings, and bury the memories and teachings under items unaffected by the past, the present, or the future. The next line of â€Å"O Hell,† is the most idealist view of futurism when Loy states, â€Å"Our person is a covered entrance to infinity, choked with the tatters of tradition,† (71). This line is stating it is now time for the people to see the personal potential the future had to offer and there was healing to come in the future. However, the only way to see the potential and healing was if the people could escape the tradition of the present time and look into the future. In the concluding lines of the poem, Loy states, Goddesses and Young Gods, Caress the Sanctity of Adolescence, In the shaft to the sun, (71). Loy began with a focus to the moon - the silver Lucifer (81) - in her poem â€Å"Lunar Baedeker† and her focus is now to the sun. The sun is a s ymbol of light and enlightenment, and the moon reflects the suns light. For Loy, in her poem â€Å"O Hell†, it is as if the moon is reflecting the sun’s answers to the future. Loy’s â€Å"Mexican Desert,† depicts her journey through the desert of Mexico. The poem gives a futurist’s interpretation of the vast and lifeless Mexican desert with grotesqueShow MoreRelatedMarriage Is An Invention Of The Laws The Parliament1448 Words   |  6 Pagesfree. The more women were restricted from men and sex, the more they wanted any man for sex: â€Å"Fleshes like weeds / Sprout in the light / So much flesh in the world / Wanders at will / Some behind curtains / Throbs to the night / Bait to the stars† (Loy 22). Their flesh has been covered for a long time, so when women finally gain the freedom to leave the home, by escaping the home or by marriage, they will want to lots of sex. Their bodies have been throbbing and yearning for it as they create impureRead MoreThe Feminist Manifesto, And Susan Glaspell s Trifles1257 Words   |  6 Pagesinspired by this movement. Modernist writers used their artform to provide social commentary in simi lar ways to realistic writers of the nineteenth century. However, modernist thought allows a much more obvious agenda to be presented through literature. Mina Loy, in â€Å"Feminist Manifesto,† and Susan Glaspell, in â€Å"Trifles,† both used their respective writings to convey personal opinions on the women’s movement and the relationship between men and women. Though this similarity places them in the same categoryRead MoreMasculinity As A Man s Man2606 Words   |  11 Pagesnaturalism encapsulated this idea of surviving and overcoming no matter what the struggle may be for the individual. Transitioning from naturalism to modernism, we can identify a shift in literary work and the ideas of masculinity. From the Manifesto of Futurism, Marinetti says that â€Å"we will glorify war-the world’s only hygiene-militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of freedom bringers†¦Ã¢â‚¬  (Marinetti 337). This manifesto shows how thinking styles were in terms of war and cleansing the world. MarinettiRead MoreCleanth Brookss Essay Irony as a Principle of Structure9125 Words   |  37 Pages * J. Hillis Miller: The Critic as Host * Clifford Geertz: Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social Thought * Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism * Tristan Tzara: Unpretentious Proclamation * Andrà © Breton: The Surrealist Manifesto; The Declaration of January 27, 1925 * Mina Loy: Feminist Manifesto * Yokomitsu Riichi: Sensation and New Sensation * Oswald de Andrade: Cannibalist Manifesto * Andrà © Breton, Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera: Manifesto: Towards