Zang tumb tumb

poem by Marinetti

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In Futurism: Literature
…in Marinetti’s war poetry, especially Zang tumb tumb and “Dunes” (both 1914). A desire to make language more intensive led to a pronounced use of onomatopoeia in poems dealing with machines and war—as in the title of Zang tumb tumb, intended to mimic the sound of artillery fire—and to a…
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