Must the Winter Come So Soon?

This aria for Erika really matches the situation she is in. She is pregnant, unmarried but in love, and her aunt is engaged with her lover. This piece is slow, cold, and sad. Erika is depressed because she can't have the child and she is going to lose her lover. Erika flees out in to cold to have the child aborted. The forest is neither sunset or dawn, it is time standing still for her, weeping for her.