Dadaism and Me

Dadaism was a very interesting and odd phenomenon that was started in Switzerland. What is so surprising about this is that it was started in Switzerland, a country that remained neutral despite the surroundings going on around it. Dadaists were known for their arts, visual and musical, including poetry. A Dadaist poem can be made from a newspaper article. My Dadaist poem follows.

Guard instead said of Pistons,
That know facetiously in It
Jackson helped times get rebounds
The and ligament that walk
Instead Rodman in played total
Be All-Star the that row

A Dadaist requires little to no work to create whereas other poetry requires long hours of work at times. Other than the last line, my poem made no sense because I row, and it would be nice to be an all star rower, if there is such a thing. Hopefully this is a prediction of the future.

The word dada is French for hobby horse. Dadaism is rather playful like a hobbyhorse as there are not strict rules and regulations. It seems a lot more lighthearted. They say it is a coincidence that it happened during World War I probably because the Swiss weren’t involved in the great war. However there are connections between Dadaism and the great war. Dadaism is the opposite of the kind of things that were going on during the war. The war was very serious, and tough for everyone involved with it. However Dadaism was almost like a joke. The reason it has a connection is because the Swiss were not involved with the war so it was only fitting that it was started in France. The Swiss had a lot more freedom, time, and morale, whereas the other countries were beat up from the war. However, Robby brings up an interesting point in his post. Dadaism has its own kind of destruction, that of words. In the war there was destruction of people and places, and objects, but in Dadaism there was a destruction of the conventional way to do poetry, writing, and art.