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Guillaume Apollinaire is considered one of the most important literary figures of the early twentieth century. His brief career influenced the development of such artistic movements as Futurism, Cubism, Dadaism, and Surrealism, and the legend of his personality—bohemian artist, raconteur, gourmand,…
Apollinaire's poetry was characterized by its experimental use of language, disregard for traditional poetic forms, and its engagement with the modern world. He was a pioneer of visual poetry , using typography and other visual elements to create a new kind of poetic experience.
Apollinaire: a new downloadable English translation of selected poems including poems from Alcools, Vitam Impendere Amori, and The Bestiary.
He wrote poems without punctuation, in his attempt to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. [2] Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc 's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias .
Zone. Guillaume Apollinaire. 1880 –. 1918. At last you’re tired of this elderly world. Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating. You’re fed up living with antiquity. Even the automobiles are antiques. Religion alone remains entirely new religion.
Apollinaire was an important part of several avant-garde movements in French literature and art at the start of the twentieth century. His influences include the Symbolist poets Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Jules Laforgue, and Tristan Corbière.
Ocean of Earth. By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Ron Padgett. To G. de Chirico. I have built a house in the middle of the Ocean. Its windows are the rivers flowing from my eyes. Octopi are crawling all over where the walls are. Hear their triple hearts beat and their beaks peck against . the windowpanes.
