I have a few questions about some nursery rhymes.
1) Who said Humpty Dumpty was an egg? He is always portrayed as an egg but nowhere in the story does it say he was an egg…he was just breakable.
2) Tied to the above question. If Humpty Dumpty was an egg…what was he doing on a wall?
3) Also, Why does it say that "all the kings horses and all the kings men tried to put Humpty together again"…I understand the men part but how would ha horse help put an egg back together.
4)Pop goes the weasel. Part of the lyrics say "all around the cobblers bench the monkey chased the weasel, the preacher kissed the cobbler’s wife, pop goes the weasel" So even back when this song was made they were teacher kids to be unfaithful through nursery rhymes? Just though provoking questions…I would love to hear feedback
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Tags: all the kings men, breakable, cobbler, cobblers bench, egg, humpty dumpty, kings horses, lyrics, monkey, preacher, weasel
Tags: all the kings men, breakable, cobbler, cobblers bench, egg, humpty dumpty, kings horses, lyrics, monkey, preacher, weasel
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Hun its made up it doesn’t have to realistic
you bring very interesting points!
Answers:
1)"humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale."Humpty Dumpty", who was not an egg. As some are mutually exclusive, the theories necessarily include false etymologies.
2)Appearently he was human like since he was able to "sat(sit)"
3)You can search the answer on wikipedia, it’s just too long to put down.
4)Alot of the "nursery rhymes" we inappropriate for children, but it was to cope for the times they lived in.
ITS AN EFFING NURSREY RHYME.
STOP OVER ANALYZING.
its people like YOU that ruin it for the little ones.
totally agree.. I never got the whole egg- wall thing either… but it is 4 kids … now the preacher kissed the cobbler’s wife is setting bad morals into the kids through innocence…. They pick up on stuff like that probably faster than any adult….nice point…I get what you are saying…..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_dumpty
Humpty Dumpty used to be what a short, clumsy person was called although there are various theories as to what the nursery rhyme originally meant (one version is that Humpty Dumpty was referring to a type of cannon, another that it was referring to King Richard III of England).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_goes_the_weasel
The original theme seems to have been a darkly humorous vignette of the cycle of poverty among workers in the environs of London. The "weasel" may refer to a spinner’s weasel, a mechanical yarn measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with an internal ratcheting mechanism that clicks every two revolutions and makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured. "Pop goes the weasel", in this meaning, describes the repetitive sound of a machine governing the tedious work of textile workers toiling for subsistence wages. In the context of the rhyme then the first three lines of each verse describe various ways of spending one’s meager wages, with "pop goes the weasel" indicating a return to unpleasant labour.
You bring an very good point.
Gut i think he was portrayed as an egg because eggs are easy to break.
Good point tho.