Friday, May 30, 2008

surrealism as a message

1. The actual movement
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The Surrealist movement was finally and clearly recognized on October 11, 1924. Surrealism began to be renowned in Paris with the intense effort of AndrĂ© Brenton. It became most established in Europe and soon the U.S., during the times of World War 1 and World War 2. Surrealists believed that there was a dominion in the human subconscious thoughts that could be reached through the basis of new more abstract poets, painters, musicians, dancers etc. A lot of the movement dealt with being spontaneous with the way that one feels, and presenting in the rawest way that the idea initially developed in one’s mind. Surrealists like to in some ways make a declaration with their different forms of art by following no type of pattern of past structure that most artists once did. They no longer wanted to fear the wrath of derision through society and the world when it was very evident that at that point, and still today, the conflicts affecting the entire world were unable to be sufficiently apprehended through the old more conformed way of expressing one’s self.
All of the poetry that I have read in the past has always emerged as being the more central and informative emotions of a poet. However, the poetry that I was exposed to before was hand picked by most of my former teachers and lacked the severity of unpreventable thought that many of these surrealist poets were able to divulge. This type of writing where it is purely excess of human vulnerability is probably kind that I am most fond of. Through their thriving talents, surrealists gave a sincere and triumphant attempt to present a frank solution to the negative influence of hateful war and political mishaps.
In their unique ways of writing, many of the authors of the surrealist poetry addressed the vague parts to life that a majority of the world has wanted us to repress. In Guillaume Apollinaire’s poems he seemed to be the one to confine this vagueness in the best manner. One of his poems called “The Bells” depicts how a gypsy being so mystifying and uncatchable allows humans to be lured by her enchantment. This type of element constantly draws me more in the direction of such style.

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