Contrast between literal statement and underlying meaning Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs
Neither applies here. I somehow doubt that someone contemplating Death is distracted by irony.
I had an English lit prof (Richard Poirier) who gave a lecture once about how "irony" was a common substitute for failure to engage the text. I'm ready to defer to Carrol or Yoshie on this.
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> > I don't think it's about loyalty and infidelity.
> > I'd say it's about misfortune -- the way of the
> world --
> > as usual leading inexorably to death. Clearly
> loyalty
> > is not the operative factor here, since after all
> > the singer canoodles the woman.
>
> Sure it is Max. It's called irony. Of course,
> irony wouldn't have any bite
> if not for misfortune.
>
> -- Luke