After The Marne, Joffre Visited The Front By Car

Marinetti's work combines art and poetry into a form form he called parole in liberte (words in freedom).  Often realized as collages, Marinetti's poems are dissonant compositions with nonsense words in various typefaces and sizes meandering freely about the page, resulting in a chaotic pattern. He distorted, stretched, and fragmented words, so that they lost all connection to their original meaning.   This offering is designed like a military map. The letter forms M and S dominate this composition. M refers to the word "Marne" (location of the battle) and portrays the outline of mountains. The S renders the curves of the Seine River surrounding Paris and are supposed to evoke the spirals of the reverses in military strategy. Smaller surrounding text recalls the sounds and formations within a military battle.