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

We must not storm.

But be thankful together

Whatever the weather.

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Whether the weather be fine,

Whether the weather be not,

Whether the weather be cold,

Whether the weather be not,

We’ll weather the weather

Whatever the weather

Whether we like it or not.

So, all dialogues prove our hypothesis because people often talk and discuss the weather. One must follow a very important rule: you always must agree with other people when you talk about the weather. It’s a part of polite conversations.

The results of our research

To support or disapprove our hypothesis we have studied such books as “Pygmalion” by Bernard Shaw, “Three men in a boat to nothing say about the dog” by Jerome K. Jerome, “Stories for children” by Vera Colwell, Eileen Colwell and Leila Berg, “Easy English” by Vyborova, “The ABC fun” by Burlakova, “Tales from Shakespeare” by William Shakespeare and other literature.

We found out that in the “Stories for children” there are a lot of descriptions of different seasons and weather:

“How cold it was! The yard was white and smooth. Flakes of snow were falling” (Vera Colwell);

“Then one day spring came. Blue and white and yellow flowers came out in the garden, and the sun shone more warmly every day” (ibid);

“It was a bright, sunny day… (Leila Berg);

“One day it was raining. It rained and rained. Pete put on his raincoat with the hood, and his big wellingtons, and went outside to see what happening. It was a heavy rain. And it made great puddles in the street” (ibid);

“It had rained all night long. But now the sun was shining, and the wind was blowing all over the pavements, blowing the rain away. The pavements were white and clean where the wind had dried them” (ibid);

“It was a beautiful October morning. Everything was golden. The trees were golden in the sun, and the roads were gold” (ibid);

“It was springtime the birds were flying and new exciting things were happening every day” (ibid);

“It was a lovely hot day. The sun shone all the time. The children on the beach ran in and out of the warm water” (Eileen Colwell);

Also, we have found in the story “Three men in a boat to nothing say about the dog” by Jerome K. Jerome.

“Sometimes a westerly oily wind blew, and at other times an easterly oily wind, and sometimes it blew a northerly oily wind, and may be a southerly oily wind; but weather it came from the Arctic snows, or was raised in the waste of the desert sands. The rain is pouring steadily down all the time”;

Besides, we have found in the play “King Lear” some descriptions of seasons and weather, too:

“While he was threatening what his weak arm could never carry out, night fell, and a fearful storm of thunder, lighting and rain broke out”;

“The wind was high, and the rain and storm increased”;

“This dreadful storm has driven the beasts to their hiding places”;