Oh dear...this is such a beautiful song. I love how Sufjan can talk about Christmas in a song without the song being competely about christmas. I do, of course, feel that winter is used here to show the state of the narrarators broken heart being cold and angry and Christmas is a happy time within the cold of winter in which friends can be happy together and the narrarator can try to overcome his broken heart.
Oh dear...this is such a beautiful song. I love how Sufjan can talk about Christmas in a song without the song being competely about christmas. I do, of course, feel that winter is used here to show the state of the narrarators broken heart being cold and angry and Christmas is a happy time within the cold of winter in which friends can be happy together and the narrarator can try to overcome his broken heart.