AGES ERA PERIOD
ROMANTIC PERIOD
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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: -Shelley was influenced by the work of Mary Wollstonecraft and the early work of William Godwin.
Detailed explanation-2: -Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Mask of Anarchy, the most celebrated literary response to the Peterloo massacre – which has its bicentenary on 16 August – drew on accounts of the tragedy written by the radical journalist and freethinker, Richard Carlile.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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.