Situational irony in Emily Dickinson's poetry

The poetry of Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) contemplates several kinds of irony: self-irony in the poems aimed at herself; ironical world vision, when she deals with some external aspects of existence (human knowledge, system of beliefs, nature, society, and situation), metaphysical irony when she reflects on the mysteries of the cosmos and of her cultural universe. With varying degrees of emphasis, her fundamental themes (love, faith, death, suffering) are present in all kinds of irony, either as an intention or as a device designed to produce an ironical effect. This is thus an attempt to make one of the possible selections from her work, namely, to tackle the situational irony present in many of her poems like the ones hereby analyzed.