February... oh dear

The overall message of this poem is left until the very end when the speaker says "so get going on a little more optimism," but before that its a bunch of whining. The title of the poem is February, but never does the speaker actually mention February except to define it as the Month of Despair(dun dun duuuuuun). Most of the time the author talks about winter in general. This fact makes me think that the speaker has angry feelings toward February and especially February 14th. The poem is a heartbreak poem because the speaker has felt love, but has had it taken away. The speaker spends the majority of the poem complaining about her cat's whining and neediness when she is actually complaining about her lack of love and need for comfort. She used the bed to describe the comfort that she is lacking from a person, so she spends more time in bed. Finally, at the end, she realizes that she cannot be a lonely cat lady forever, tells the cat to get off her face, and orders herself to be optimistic. The last line is "make it Spring" which solidifies the despair she felt in winter.