An Early Start in Midwinter- Sarah Robyn?

Question

what is the poets feelings about midwinter? here's the link
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/sarah/poem8.htm

3 ideas would be great

Answer 1

-She detests it because of the many things to attend to:

The freeze is on. At six a scattering
of sickly lights shine pale in kitchen windows.
Thermostats are adjusted. Furnaces

-She feels irked by the condition of water taps and pipes:

All night
pipes ticked and grumbled like sore bones.
The tap runs rust over your chapped hands.

-And when she has attended to all chores and sits to listen to the radio, she is blasted by the weather forecast that the temperature would be below zero:

This is your hour to dream. The radio
says that the freeze is on, and may go on
weeks without end. You barely hear the warning.

-She is rueful, fearful and retiring about the season but describes it with a tongue in the cheek off-beat style.