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I think its a positive high school tradition it gives teens something to be excited for something new and different that haven't really experienced before 
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To get good grades and good friends!
        
             
        
        
        
In my opinion, the whole poem is quite ironic - although she is mentioning the exultation and the royal color of death, the poem itself begins with the narrator saying that she cannot breathe - that she doesn't want to die.
So, I would say that the ironic parts are: 
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea, -
Past the houses, past the headlands,
Into deep eternity!