The song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette its a song wich, like the tittle says, its talks about irony. Along the story, we can identify some different clasifications of irony:
"An old man turned ninety-eight, he won the lottery and died the next day" Situational irony. Isn´t it ironic that the man have all the luck to win the lottery and one day after he died?
"It's like rain on your wedding day" Situational irony. The day of your wedding is supouse to be the best day of your life, full of hapiness and a sunny day.
"It's a free ride when you've already paid" Situational irony. You had just spend money in something its free!
"It's the good advice that you just didn't take" Situational irony. They give you a great advice, which may help to do the right thing, and you dont take advantage.
"Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly, He packed his suitcase and kissed his kids good-bye , He waited his whole damn life to take that flight, And as the plane crashed down he thought" Situational irony. He spent his hole life wainting to fly because he was afraid, and when he finally decide to do it, his flight crash.
The phrase above continue with "Well, isn't this nice." and this is verbal irony, because the situation it isnt nice, it is quite horrible.
"A traffic jam when you're already late" Situational irony. You are very delayed going somewhere and you took a traffic jam which makes you more late of what you just are.
"A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break" Situational irony. You want to smoke, and there you cant.
"It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife" Situational irony. Its plenty of spoons, and not even a knife that is what you need.
"It's meeting the man of my dreams And then meeting his beautiful wife" Situational irony. You felt in love with a man who is married to a beautiful woman.
For me the most ironic one is the one that says "An old man turned ninety-eight, he won the lottery and died the next day" because its like, not always, and not everyone has the good luck of winning the lottery. And its ironic how this man it seems to had all the good luck, and then in a flash it appears that its the man with less luck on the world.
I think that the significance of all this ironics phrases that appear along the song, are showing anger. Because i can noticed that the singer is constantly repeating the phrase "Isnt it ironic?" like saying that this sort of thing cant happend. Its like she suffered from some ironic situations, and she wants to reflect on this song why this sort of thing can happend, why if, as the song says, they are ironic.
