Due to its massive size, none of the king's horses and none of the king's men were able to put it back together again News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost World News. All rights reserved. This Humpty cake also has questions. Getty Images. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall a refresher Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Nursery rhymes are commonly linked to historical events, but it is difficult to prove that imagery in the nursery rhymes represents historical places and figures. Two of the most popular theories link Humpty Dumpty to two separate historical events. The first is the Fall of Colchester. During the English Civil War in , the town of Colchester was under siege. Given the size and weight of the cannon, the dozens of men who attempted to lift it back to its place on the wall were unable to do so.
Eventually, Colchester was forced to open its gates and surrender. While the siege of Colchester did happen, it is unlikely that Humpty Dumpty refers to anything in the siege as it happened over a century before Humpty Dumpty was recorded and there is no documented connection between the two.
He supposedly was a hunchback, though recent evidence seems to indicate Shakespeare was wildly exaggerating on this point, with Richard actually apparently having scoliosis which made his right shoulder higher than the left, but otherwise no hunch. Given the actual evidence at hand, it is far more likely that Humpty Dumpty was not intended to be a story, but rather just a riddle posed to children for their amusement. Wolsey was pretty corpulent so he fits the image well.
A riddle has no answer,and when you get an answer it is not an answer to the riddle,it is the end of the story. And who else but the modern oracle,lewis carroll,deserves to end the story with a story that is a minefield of riddles. Is that story justified by any historical event, or is it just a part of the fiction in the story? I was wondering if the Humpty Dumpty rhyme was originally meant to be a reminder to small children not to injure their skulls.
Humpty Dumpty as an egg might be a metaphor for a head, the better to impress upon small children the permanency of a broken skull. Teaching a child to employ caution before attempting to climb to a high place or do something else that might result in trauma to the cranium.
Yes I must say this actually holds the most resonance to me Erica. In fact this is the reason I searched for the hidden meaning of the rhyme. I personally had several bad knocks to the head from a young age and has took me 20 years to pinpoint what was wrong with my reality, consciousness and outlook on life.
As back then we just took a hit and got on with things. Oh well. I have never read such ignorance as i have on this subject. This article originally appeared on grandparents.
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