A question for a scholar

[thewhiteeyes]

I have pondered over this for a long time and maybe you should as well. Where in the poem does it ever say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg? It never actually STATES that anywhere in the poem. Maybe he was a vase...or a porcelain doll...or maybe the poem was a metaphor for a young man's broken heart. Ok, I'm an idiot. Have a nice day.

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Ask and ye shall recieve!

[plasko]

Humpty Dumpty was not an egg at all; nor was he an English king as people frequently believe. Humpty Dumpty was the nickname for a huge wooden battering ram built for the army of King Charles I in the mid-1600s to roll down a slope, across the River Severn, and up against the walls of Gloucester. During England's Civil War Gloucester was held by Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads. While Charles' army was busy building the "Humpty Dumpty" the Roundheads were secretly widening the river. Thus Humpty Dumpty was wrecked in midstream, "had a great fall", and toppled into the water, drowning hundreds of soldiers--and there was nothing all the king's men could do about it.

Re: Ask and ye shall recieve!

[thewhiteeyes]

Wow. I had no idea it had that much history behind it. Very cool. Thanks for the info man! :)

hmmm...

[freejenkins]

You know, I always assumed humpty dumpty was actually some grand idea, like equality or something like that. And once mankind "broke him" we could never truly put "him" back together again.

Or maybe he was an egg...

Re: hmmm...

[plasko]

Or maybe he was a huge battering ram that faltered in the river...

[e_braille_]

yeah I thought it was a meatphor for the end of the world,that egg always looked a little bit tomuch likethe moon. but thats just me the world is definately not going to end on the 14 day of october by the moon falling form the sky in the year 3046.

Rick