The Futurist Manifestio Marinetti

The Futurist Manifestio is a poem written by the Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. It was published in the Italian newspaper, Gazzetta dell’Emilia on February 5th 1909. It was also published on February 20th 1909 in the French newspaper Le Figaro. Marinetti explains in his poem the importance of looking forward and leaving the past behind you. He explains how even art should be left in the past because it is only an artist attempt to break barriers that they could never be broken. Marinetti talks about how the future is now and that it is not important to look back because the past has already been done and the best thing you can do is move forward and create your own history. One verse from his poem reads, “To admire an old picture is to pour our sensibility into a funeral urn instead of casting it forward with violent spurts of creation and action.”
This new philosophy was a true rejection of the past; it embraced speed, noise, machines, cities and even pollution. The poem was published in a newspaper so it was intended for the general public to read and it was meant to change their minds and get them to accept new ideas. According to his biography from Princeton.edu, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti; the author of The Futurist Manifesto and founder of the Futurism movement; spent his early years in Alexandra, Egypt. He gained an early love for literature. This love for literature also showed his willingness to push boundaries, he started his first school magazine at seventeen it was called, Papyrus, and he was nearly expelled for bringing Emile Zola’s scandalous novels to school. Marinetti had always been revolutionary and always focused on always moving forward. He continuously pushed boundaries when he was younger and that carried into his adult hood and shown through with his manifesto being