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1) Oliverio Girondo’s poetry is representative of a â€Å"new style† of art encompassed in Josà © Ortega y Gasset’s The Dehumanization of Art. Aesthetics no longer conform to the traditional classical style but instead, champions a futurist type meant to bypass the limitations of rationale in a trivial and playful nature likened to sport. Girondo clearly breaks from the platonic ideals of beauty and delves into the aesthetics of the grotesque by using antipoetic language, which sublimes the abject. This is made obvious early in Scarecrow other anomalies as he writes that he â€Å"couldn’t care less if women have breasts like fresh magnolias or withered figs, skin smooth as a peach or rough as sand paper. [†¦] breath of an aphrodisiac or the breath of an insecticide.†(Girondo 7). Girondo often uses ludic and vulgar language and has a clear objective of relegating humans to beasts or objects, for example, he describes â€Å"May a spiderâ€℠¢s foot sprout from each of your pores, [†¦] may all the inhabitants of the city mistake you for a urinal. [†¦] May your family amuse itself deforming your bone structure, so that mirrors, looking at you, commit suicide out of sheer repugnance† (Girondo 75). Girondo’s scarecrow calligram illustrates the â€Å"new style† of art masterfully as he creates an extended metaphor to ridicule bourgeois ideals, literarily from head to toe intended to scare bourgeois aesthetics, instead of accustomed crows. Girondo ultimately describes that â€Å"a book should be put together like a