spontaneous, cheerfully and mockingly aleatory in the face of a supremely confident assumption of the total absurdity of everything (Seymour-Smith 634).
Dada was a movement that was closely allied to other movements, being itself a form of Expressionism and producing as it did Surrealism. Dada was a nihilistic movement seeking the cessation of all rules, leading to total freedom, separate from all traditions. A movement can thus be anti- more than pro- some idea or technique. Dada would have a strong effect on subsequent movements and on a number of poets not specifically associated with this movement, such as T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.
Surrealism is a movement in literature and in the arts which began with a manifesto. The movement originated in France in the 1920s:
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