Social Conditions affect writing
Advanced European societies can't support long wars. That was thought prior to World War I. The truth was that the Europeans could not support a long war unchanged. The First World War left no aspect of European civilization untouched, as pre-war governments were transformed to fight total war. The war drastically changed Europe's social conditions thus affecting the writing during this period. During this time many movements shared a resolute "modernist" contempt for all academic styles in the arts, a hatred for a boundlessness culture, and a commitment to the free expression of individuals. All these feelings were given an additional jolt of violence and anger by the horrors of wartime experience. During the war there was a loss of illusions as described in "All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque. Poets, like others, had gone to war in 1914 believing in heroism and nobility. Trench warfare hardened and embittered many. Freud said this of disillusionment: "When I speak of disillusionment, everyone will know at once what I mean. One need not be a sentimentalist; one may perceive the biological and psychological necessity for suffering in the economy of hu
Unlike the Italian Futurists who saw constant war as a means to create a culture that existed for art, the Dadaists proposed an anti-art movement that would destroy culture and therefore war. In the Cabaret Voltaire, a common hangout for pacifists and Bohemian's of the day, Hugo Ball (1889-1926) invented a form of anti-poetry in 1916: of the vowels is weighted and distributed solely according to the 3 Anne Frank the Diary of a Young Girl H. Ball is often cited as the "inventor" of sound poetry. Along with Richard Huelsenbeck (1892-1974), Raoul Housmann (1861-1971), Triston Tzara (1896-1963), Marcel Janco (1895-1984). The Dadaist's explored the simultaneist and bruitist poems at the Cabaret Voltaire. "l'Admiral Cherche une maison a louer" for example, was a simultaneist group poem performed by Ball, Huelsenbeck, Tzara, and Janco. All the performers participated at once with whistling, singing, speaking and making noises. During the 25 months Anne Frank and her family were hiding in the annex she often didn't understand what was going on around her. by Anne Frank, B. M. Mooyaart (Translator), 2 http://sunsite.dcc.uchile.cl/wm/paint/glo/dada/
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Approximate Word count = 1058
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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