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 wings degrades the dress i wear. 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? 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 weight of cathedral tunes. heavenly hurt it gives us; we can find no scar, but internal difference where the meanings are. exultation is the going of an inland soul to sea, — past the houses, past the headlands, into deep eternity! nextreset