This article is about the poetic genre. For the english word, see ultraism (wiktionary)
Ultraism ("El Ultraísmo" in Spanish) was a genre of Spanish poetry which came into existence after World War I. This genre followed nonconformist metrics, free verse, and evocative imagery, influenced by Symbolism and Parnassians. Notable followers include Pedro Garfias and Jorge Luis Borges. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Free verse (or vers libre) is a style of poetry that is based on cadences that are more irregular than those of traditional poetic meter. ... The Parnassians were a group of 19th-century French poets, so called from their journal, the Parnasse contemporain, itself named after Mount Parnassus, home of the Muses in Greek mythology. ... Jorge Luis Borges (bôr′hĕs) (/ˈxoɾ. ...
Ultraism forsook rhyme in exchange for nonconformist metrics and free verse, and adopted a free typographic layout of the poem in the page, attempting to fuse the plastic arts and poetry.
Ultraism was akin to the creacionismo of the Chilean poet Vicente Huidobro, who met with the Ultraists in their tertulias.
Huidobro proposed that a poem should always be a new object, distinct from the rest, which must be created "like nature creates a tree" — a position that implied freedom of the poem from reality, including the inner reality of the author.
There was also a brief teaching stint in the Spanish Department at SUNY Stony Brook, lectures at Columbia, Harvard and Vassar, and participation in a poetry festival at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
But it was ultraism, a school of poetry founded in Madrid in 1918 by Guillermo de la Torre and Cansino Assens, that attracted Carrera Andrade.
Ultraism, which stressed the metaphor as a primary tool of composition, became the method by which his most famous poems were composed.
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