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A Slap in the Face of Public taste Annotations: Summary: The authors are Russian poets, he genre is futurism which is a genre where the “futurist” created a language where they made words sound very important by separating words from their meanings. Futurism is a revolt from symbolism. This poem calls the past and the tradition of symbolism beneath them and makes fun or speaks badly of the previous use of language when it comes to writing. They wanted writing to have words that were chosen at random or arbitrarily. “we alone was the face of our time” We were there and we experienced it and its us who can speak/write about it “The academy and pushkin are less intelligible than hieroglyphics” The academy and pushkin have less knowledge/can tell you less than you’d be able to understand from hieroglyphics. Academy and Pushkin are kinds or writing. Might be trying to say that his piece of writing or the way its written is superior to Academy and Pushkin.

“He who does not forget his first love will not recognize his last” If you don’t forget the past you won’t remember what came after.

“From the height of skyscrapers we gaze at their insignificance” From how far and how much greater we are we see how much they don’t matter. Maybe saying that these poets now are better than those that came before them

“Wash your hands which have touched the filthy slime of the books written by the countless Leonid Andreyevs. All those Maxim Gorkys, Krupins, Bloks, Sologubs, Remizovs, Averchenkos, Chornys, Kuzmins, Bunins” This says the writings of these mostly Russian popular writers is a thing of the past. When it says wash your hands” it basically means get rid of or eliminate their kind of writing and thoughts from your mind. Maxim Gorky: Russian and soviet writer, founder of social realism literary method Vladimir Krupin: Soviet Russian writer, editor, religious author and tutor. Remizovs: Russian modernist writers, had a very creative imagination sometimes called fantastic or bizarre....