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Futurism

Movement
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

An early 20th-century movement focused on speed, technology, youth, and violence, and the rejection of the past

Detailed Definition
Futurism was an early 20th-century avant-garde movement that celebrated speed, technology, violence, and industrial modernity while rejecting the past; in poetry, Futurists like F.T. Marinetti used onomatopoeia, mathematical symbols, and radical typography to mimic machine rhythms and urban chaos, seeking to destroy syntax and create a “telegraphic” language that embodied dynamism and revolution.
Example
Example in poetry:
Futurism: "A racing car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace"; "We sing the factory’s roar, the dynamo’s hymn"; "Time and space died yesterday"; "Explode the sonnet! Speed is truth!"
Additional Notes
Early 20th-century movement celebrating speed, technology, violence, modernity. Marinetti founded 1909. Words-in-freedom technique. Related: avant-garde, modernism, Italian Futurism. Study: manifestos as poetry.
Other Meanings of “Futurism”
Also Known As
Forward-looking verse Avant-garde movement Speed poetry Machine aesthetic Futurist Movement Futurist poetics
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