Below are a number of questions that you might use to focus a response on one of the manifestos.
| 1. | What does Marinetti say about war? What is the role of violence? |
| 2. | Discuss how women were viewed based on Loy's manifesto. What does she think about social and marital roles of women and men? |
| 3. | What does Pound say about language and the role of the poet? |
| 4. | What does Cather say about modern novels and the notion of suggestion? (i.e. What does she mean by her metaphor of furniture?) |
| 5. | How does Williams use Spring as a metaphor for writing about imagination and creation? |
| 6. | How does Hughes discuss the creation of art as a contributor to racial identity, and how does he distinguish the two different art forms? |