Easter Zunday Comments

Besides its religious and political connotations, Easter has always been, for working people, a holiday: a chance to dress up in your Sunday best, go out and have some fun. This aspect of the occasion is well captured in Ingeborg Bachmann's dialect poem Easter Zunday. Bachmann also reminds us that this spring holiday has its roots in earlier, pagan celebrations of fertility and the end of winter. (Billy Mills, The Guardian)

I'm not surprised that no one has tried to write a comment to this poem! All the more reason for me to give it a go? What is the reason for the strange germanic type spelling? Are the colours symbolic? The brassy yellow, the bright blue of the jacket? The overall feeling is one of light playfulness, even joy. I cannot detect any irony or gloomy references. She was obviously feeling pretty good that Easter Sunday!