Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is B

Explanation:

Irony is when you don't expect what happens, like a fire in a firefighter's base. So, surrendered means you have given up and have been defeated, but she says that it is still undefeated, you'd think it was defeated. So that is why it is irony.

Answer 2

Answer:

Exultation is the going

Of an inland soul to sea, —

Past the houses, past the headlands,

Into deep eternity!

Explanation: