What do love and weather have to do with each other?
Quite a bit, it turns out. Forty-eight of The Beatles’ 308 songs mention some kind of weather, according to accuweather.com.
You can watch The Petersens’ version of “Here Comes the Sun” here. The song is written by George Harrison, formerly of The Beatles. You’ll quickly notice that the sunny weather is a metaphor for a relationship that is improving.
When Joni Mitchell sang in the 1970s, “I really don’t know clouds at all” in her song “Both Sides, Now,” she wasn’t singing about clouds so much as using them as a metaphor about life and how she didn’t understand it.
Weather-related songs didn’t begin in the 1960s and ’70s. “Singing’ in the Rain” was written 1929 and became famous in the 1952 movie of the same name.
To this weather list, you can add Stevie Wonder’s “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” Billy Currington’s “Swimmin’ in Sunshine,” the Muppets’ “Rainbow Connection,” and a whole host of other weather-related songs.
Now it’s your turn:
- Write a poem or song to describe your day or a happy or troubled relationship. Refer to the weather in some way to describe the day or the relationship.
- Do you know someone who has a sunshiny disposition? How about someone who lives under a cloud? Describe this person in a paragraph. Use weather metaphors and similes. Include examples of their moods, attitudes, behaviors, and effects on others.
- Choose a character from fiction or create one. Now describe your character according to some weather phenomenon.
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