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Futurist Movement

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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 Italian artistic movement celebrating violence, technology, speed, and the rejection of the past. Founded by F.T. Marinetti and profoundly influencing avant-garde poetry and visual art across Europe.

Detailed Definition
The Futurist Movement revolutionized poetry through radical formal innovation in service of celebrating technological modernity and violence. Poets employed fragmentation, onomatopoeia, and typographic experiment. This movement appears in poetry through celebration of technology and speed, glorification of violence and war, fragmented and explosive syntax, typographic innovation, rejection of traditional aesthetics and historical inheritance, assertion of youth and progress, establishing futurism as a crucial moment in avant-garde artistic innovation.
Example
Example in poetry:
F.T. Marinetti's work, using onomatopoeia, fragmented typography, and the rejection of traditional syntax to capture the speed and noise of modern life, embodies the Futurist Movement; A poem celebrating the beauty of the machine, the automobile, and warfare, rejecting tradition and museums; A work using mathematical symbols and non-traditional arrangement of text to mimic the mechanics of industry; A poem that praises aggressive action, technology, and patriotism with an almost violent energy.
Additional Notes
The Futurist Movement (early 20th century) glorified speed, technology, and modernity. Poets like Filippo Marinetti rejected traditional syntax and metre, embracing typographical experimentation and kinetic energy to mirror industrial dynamism.
Also Known As
Futurism Futurist Movement Era
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