Курсовая работа: An Evergreen topic in British classical literature, children’s poems and everyday speech: patterns of climate in the British isles

And browned by the sun

With their books and bags

To school they run.

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What a rainy season!

The sky is dark and grey.

No sunshine anymore!

No playing out of doors.

However, in any particular year almost any month can prove the wettest and the differences between months are not great.

There is a very good poem about months:

January comes with frost and snow

February brings us winds that blow,

March has winds and happy hours,

April brings us sun and showers,

Pretty is the mouth of May,

June has flowers, sweet and gay

July begins our holiday,

August sends us all away,

September takes us back to school,

October days begin to cool,

November brings the leaves to Earth;

December dying sees the birth of the New Year and all its mirth.

So, all months are special and have their own features. That’s why, a lot of writers like to describe them in their poetry and prose.

The theme of the weather in everyday speech

Still, the weather is so changeable that the British often say that they have no climate but only weather. Therefore, it is natural for them to use the comparison “as changeable as the weather” of a person who often changes his mood or opinion about something. The weather is the favorite topic of conversations in the UK.

So, according to Samuel Johnson, an outstanding English lexicographer, critic, author and conversationalist, “when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather”. A lot of conversational idioms and set expressions about weather can be found in novels by English writers, some examples will suffice:

- Good evening, Mr. Hunter. Rather cold weather for the time of year, isn’t it?

- Yes- I suppose it is. Have you got a Mr. Arden staying here? (Agatha Christie);

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