Answer: Because Armand cannot afford new shoes and flowers for Sally, he feels he cannot attend the dance.
Explanation: President Grover Cleveland was condemned and blamed for the depression. Gold resources deposited in the U.S. Treasury declined to a desperately low level. This required President Cleveland to acquire $65 million in gold from Wall Street finance J.P. Morgan and the Rothschild brokerage family of England.
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,
<span>Into deep eternity!</span>
The 1st answer
GIDDY UP!!!!!!!!!!!
