Select the word from the list that best fits the definition identifying vocabulary definition

What does vexed mean as it is used in the second stanza of "the second coming"?

In emerson’s “society and solitude,” emerson makes three allusions. what are they? question 13 options: francis bacon, irish dayworkers, coeur-de-lions egyptians, thoreau, and parliament cotton mather, odysseus, and farmer’s almanac

Which best expresses the irony present in this passage?