Expression "rise with the season"

[Gabriela A.]

This is from a poem by John Mole:
"A grief that covers its face in shame
Then rises with the season
As if from sleep".
Can you please explain what "rises with the season" means?
Thank you!

[Skrej]

Hi Gabriela,

Welcome to English-test.net.

If something rises with the season, it happens regularly at a particular time of the year.

In Mole's poem, without reading the whole poem, it's a bit difficult to say exactly what he's referring to, but based on what you cited, something is like a grief that occurs at a particular time of year (sparked by a memory, perhaps, or anniversary of an event?), which hibernates during most of the year, but is renewed/envoked afresh at a particular time each year.

Could you provide the entire poem, or at least the title? It's difficult to analyze and interpret just a few lines out of a poem.
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[Alan]

Hi Gabriela,

'Rises' in your quote suggests to me that the grief referred to, comes back to life - comes back to 'haunt', as it were, the poet

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[Gabriela A.]

Many thanks to all of you! I think I've got it. However, Skrej, here's the poem, it's called "Wings". I can see you're a cat, so please don't go thinking it's about fried chicken (joke, of course).

Whether or not they are of angels
Or just the makeshift would-be
Of human flight from humdrum
To grace, theirs is a sudden restlessness
On buoyant shoulders, an uplift
Aimed at joy and making it.
So for every earthbound thought
There's the counter-weight,
A grief that covers its face in shame
Then rises with the season
As if from sleep, unfolding wings
To journey through the brightness of the air.

[MrPedantic]

The grief that "rises" is the "counterweight" to the "earthbound thought"; analogous seemingly to the "uplift aimed at joy".

It covers its face in shame presumably because it is no longer behaving as grief should behave: instead, it rises "as if from sleep", and unfolds its wings (as from a chrysalis) towards "brightness".

"With the season", i.e. with the new "season": the change in personal weather, after the period of grief.

MrP

[Gabriela A.]

Thank you, MrP!