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Answer: When you figure out the main idea, you can then see how the author addresses it. If they have a bias opinion against, or for it, you can note their ton when the speak about it. Knowing the main idea, can help show why the author is writing about it, and how they feel about it as well.
Explanation: Hope it helps :)
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>
