In the poem In Memoriam, A. H. H. by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the poet expresses a philosophical belief in the eternal life of the spirit.
"In Memoriam A.H.H." or simply "In Memoriam" is a poem by the British poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, completed in 1849.
Originally the title of the poem was "The Way of the Soul", and this might provide a clue of how the poem is an account of all Tennyson's thoughts and emotions as he grieves over the death of a close friend.
The instances of situational irony that occur in the above passage are:
The aunt expects the boy to accept her explanations, but he does not.
The aunt expects the boy to be interested in the cows, but he is not.
A situational irony is a form of irony in which the actions have an opposite effect of what it is intended. The outcome of the situation is totally different to what it is expected. In the above excerpt, the answers which the boy gets from his Aunt and the way he deals with those answers are an example of situational irony.
