"February, month of despair, with a skewered heart in the centre." Lines 25-26
This poem creates a tone of listlessness in the heart of the winter months. Atwood expresses a cynical attitude not only toward the weather, but towards seemingly every aspect of life, from humans to cats to warmth to holidays. However, she is also longing for the spring. Ironically, the poem begins with the word "Winter" and ends with the word "spring". Atwood shows her disdain towards Valentine's day (the "skewered heart in the centre" of February), a holiday normally associated with love. Even the concept of warmth, she puts down, saying "pollution pours out of our chimneys to keep us warm". Nothing seems to be positive, and nothing seems to be optimistic to her, a feeling all can relate to in the long, dreary, winter months.
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