Dictionary Check: ultraism
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Definition
noun
movement in Spanish and Spanish American poetry after World War I, characterized by a tendency to use free verse, complicated metrical innovations, and daring imagery and symbolism instead of traditional form and content.
Example:
"Jorge Luis Borges declared that the ‘newest aesthetic’, Ultraism, is the poetic alternative to ‘the prevailing Rubenism and Anecdotalism’."
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