"Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold..."
The mood of the poem is quite depressing, as it is about a man regretting being ungrateful to his father as a child. I think the author chose Winter because it is the season associated with depression. In winter, we are locked up in our house, like prisoners, without the spring/summer time beauty to refresh us. There is even this thing called seasonal depression, and many cases are of depression in the winter months. Winter clearly coincides with the depressing, regretful mood. Also, the colors blue and black are effective colors of the spectrum when expressing sorrow. We have the happy, lively colors, red, yellow, and orange, and the more slummed over colors, black and dark blue. It just wouldn't be applicable to mourn on a bright, sunny day, with vibrant plant life sprung up.
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