Marinetti's Manifesto advocates aggressively breaking from the past and its cultural archives, boldly proclaiming "We want to demolish museums and libraries, fight morality, feminism and all opportunist and utilitarian cowardice." This contrasts with the anxiety about personal legacy and cultural memory displayed in Eliot's Prufrock, who wonders "Do I dare disturb the universe?" While Marinetti seeks a clean break from tradition by burning libraries and museums, Eliot reveals the anxiety of leaving one's imprint on culture's historical record.

As Voss and Werner state, the archive "necessarily established in proximity to a loss" and its contents are "‘citations’ often wrenched out of context." Marinetti wants to destroy such citations and repositories in order to enable progress. But Prufrock is preoccupied with what citations about himself will remain in the cultural archive. So while differing in tone, both grapple with cultural memory’s artifacts and their power to shape legacies. Marinetti rejects giving the past's fragments such definite power, whereas Eliot spotlights personal anxiety about one's place in posterity's mosaic of decontextualized citations.

In short, Marinetti calls for razing archives to liberate the future while Eliot dwells on archives' power to determine personal legacy. But both reveal an intense modernist focus on interplay between cultural memory, artifacts, and the future's unfolding narrative.