English Questions
Which of these excerpts from poems by Emily Dickinson uses irony?My cocoon tightens, colors tease,I'm feeling for the air;A dim capacity for wingsDegrades the dress I wear.Could she have guessed that it would be;Could but a crier of the gleeHave climbed the distant hill;Had not the bliss so slow a pace, —Who knows but this surrendered faceWere undefeated still?One dignity delays for all,One mitred afternoon.None can avoid this purple,None evade this crown.There's a certain slant of light,On winter afternoons,That oppresses, like the weightOf cathedral tunes.Heavenly hurt it gives us;We can find no scar,But internal differenceWhere the meanings are.Exultation is the goingOf an inland soul to sea, —Past the houses, past the headlands,Into deep eternity!