1. Dada Began in Zurich, Switzerland Started 1916 Nonsense word for the title is playful Sense of freedom from instability of war “everything and nothing” Poems are sometimes “fractured” in images and language

4. “Whatever value there may be in Dada depends upon the extent to which it is a moral criticism of literature and life. All first-rate poetry is occupied with morality: the problem of good and evil.” T. S. Eliot

5. Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) French, Romanian-Jewish Central figure in anti- establishment & Dada movements Took side in Spanish Civil War, joined French Resistance WW2 Protested war, politically active Also went by S. Samyro, Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, Tristan Ruia or just Tristan

6. To Make A Dadist Poem - by Tristan Tzara Take a newspaper. Take some scissors. Choose from this paper an article the length you want to make your poem. Cut out the article. Next carefully cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them all in a bag. Shake gently. Next take out each cutting one after the other. Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. The poem will resemble you. And there you are--an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.