AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the organization of a working class men’s choral group in Southern England
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the Battle of Waterloo
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the Peterloo Massacre
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the storming of the Bastille
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Detailed explanation-1: -Triggered by the Manchester Massacre in 1819, the poems protest government in the Regency era and call for revolution. The first poem describes the corrupt monarchy; the remaining two call upon England’s oppressed workers to rise up against employers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shelley was influenced by the work of Mary Wollstonecraft and the early work of William Godwin.
Detailed explanation-3: -“England in 1819” Themes Written during a year of upheaval in England-including the decline of the mentally ill King George III and an infamous massacre of political protesters-it voices Shelley’s outrage at his country’s corruption, but also insists that this decay could offer hope for a phoenix-like rebirth.
Detailed explanation-4: -"Song to the Men of England” is English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s call to revolution. The poem’s speaker asks the laborers of England a provocative question: why on earth do you go on working to enrich an oppressive upper class when the country’s wealth is really in your hands?
Detailed explanation-5: -This poem was inspired by the wind which blows in that region. This poem was conceived and chiefly written in a wood that skirts the Arno, near Florence and on a day when that tempestous wind, whose temperature is at once mild and animating, was collecting the vapours which pour down the autumnal rains.