The Mask of Anarchy
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The Mask of Anarchy is a political poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that fiercely condemns tyranny and calls for nonviolent resistance in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Mask of Anarchy canonical | 2 |
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Target entity: The Mask of Anarchy Context triple: [Percy Bysshe Shelley, notableWork, The Mask of Anarchy]
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Strange Meeting
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Points of Rebellion
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Iconoclastic Fury
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The European Anarchy
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Mask of Anarchy Target entity description: The Mask of Anarchy is a political poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that fiercely condemns tyranny and calls for nonviolent resistance in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre.
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A.
Strange Meeting
"Strange Meeting" is a renowned anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen that depicts a surreal encounter between two dead soldiers, powerfully conveying the futility and horror of war.
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B.
Points of Rebellion
Points of Rebellion is a 1969 book by U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas that critiques social and political injustices in America and warns of rising civil unrest if reforms are not made.
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C.
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men is a 2009 independent film written and directed by John Krasinski, adapted from David Foster Wallace’s short story collection of the same name, exploring modern masculinity through a series of darkly comic interviews.
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D.
Iconoclastic Fury
Iconoclastic Fury was a wave of Protestant mob attacks on Catholic churches and religious images in the Low Countries in 1566, which helped ignite the broader conflict of the Eighty Years' War.
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E.
The European Anarchy
The European Anarchy is a political treatise by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson that critiques the pre–World War I international system and argues that the absence of effective supranational organization made major war inevitable.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poem
ⓘ
political poem ⓘ |
| addresses |
British government repression
ⓘ
working-class rights ⓘ |
| advocates | nonviolent mass action ⓘ |
| author | Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ |
| callsFor | moral and political awakening of the oppressed ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criticizes |
authoritarian rule
ⓘ
state violence ⓘ |
| editorOfFirstPublication | Leigh Hunt ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | The Examiner ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInYear | 1832 ⓘ |
| form | lyric poem ⓘ |
| genre |
political poetry
ⓘ
protest poetry ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Peterloo Massacre ⓘ |
| includedIn | collections of Shelley’s political writings ⓘ |
| influenced |
Chartism
ⓘ
surface form:
Chartist movement
later nonviolent resistance movements ⓘ |
| inspiredByEvent | Peterloo Massacre ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Romanticism ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | one of the earliest modern statements of nonviolent resistance in English literature ⓘ |
| meter | primarily iambic tetrameter ⓘ |
| notableLine |
"Rise like Lions after slumber"
ⓘ
"Ye are many—they are few" ⓘ |
| placeOfComposition | Italy ⓘ |
| politicalOrientation |
radical
ⓘ
reformist ⓘ |
| portrays | personified abstractions of political vices ⓘ |
| posthumousPublication | true ⓘ |
| referencedBy |
Mahatma Gandhi
ⓘ
political activists ⓘ |
| rhymeScheme | varied rhyme scheme ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | massacre of peaceful protesters at St Peter's Field, Manchester ⓘ |
| theme |
civil liberties
ⓘ
class struggle ⓘ condemnation of tyranny ⓘ moral responsibility ⓘ nonviolent resistance ⓘ peaceful protest ⓘ political oppression ⓘ |
| tone |
indignant
ⓘ
prophetic ⓘ satirical ⓘ |
| usesAllegoryFor | British political figures ⓘ |
| writtenInYear | 1819 ⓘ |
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Subject: The Mask of Anarchy Description of subject: The Mask of Anarchy is a political poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley that fiercely condemns tyranny and calls for nonviolent resistance in the wake of the Peterloo Massacre.
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