[size=+2]Guillaume Apollinaire: the Founding Father of Surrealism[/size]
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Guillaume Apollinaire influenced the Surrealists with his creation of poetry before and during the first World War. He founded the Societe des Amis de Fantômas in 1912. He believed and told stories of the phantoms of Paris and developed an organization for people who believed in phantoms. They walked the streets of Paris late at night looking for this monster that eventually became a myth of the city of Paris. Perhaps he is best known for being accused of stealing the Mona Lisa from the museum La Louvre in Paris.[size=-2]7[/size] He was mortally wounded during one of the battles of the war and died not knowing the significance his work had on the next generation. Below is an example of a poem he created in response to the war. His use of imagery not only in the words of the poem, but also in the format is a very powerful method for getting a point across.
http://newmedia.cgu.edu/cody/surrealism/guillame.htm
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Guillaume Apollinaire influenced the Surrealists with his creation of poetry before and during the first World War. He founded the Societe des Amis de Fantômas in 1912. He believed and told stories of the phantoms of Paris and developed an organization for people who believed in phantoms. They walked the streets of Paris late at night looking for this monster that eventually became a myth of the city of Paris. Perhaps he is best known for being accused of stealing the Mona Lisa from the museum La Louvre in Paris.[size=-2]7[/size] He was mortally wounded during one of the battles of the war and died not knowing the significance his work had on the next generation. Below is an example of a poem he created in response to the war. His use of imagery not only in the words of the poem, but also in the format is a very powerful method for getting a point across.
http://newmedia.cgu.edu/cody/surrealism/guillame.htm