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Humpty Dumpty is not an egg?

I am writing a college essay on something in art, science, literature, or math that has perplexed me or challenged me. I think I am going to write about how a lot of people including myself assumed that humpty dumpty is an egg when it doesnt even say that anywhere in the lines. But what can the lesson learned from that be?

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  • 8 years ago
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    you're right... actually a lot of old nursery rhymes had really violent or horrible connotations. ring-around-the-rosie was supposed to be a song about the plague, jac and jill, well, the crown jack broke is actually a part of the skull...

    so what this nursery rhyme tells us is that some guy named humpty fell from a wall hard enough to shatter....or squish... and the kings doctors couldn't stictch him back together...

    eeewwwww...

  • ?
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    8 years ago

    Ok smarty pants. What wus it? Everybody can take the simplest things and confuse the h*ll out of it, but the real smart ones provide answers. Now what was Humpty Dumpty? That college you go to must be the center of intellectual distribution in a 'blue' state.

  • 8 years ago

    Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon according to this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty

    If you feel Wiki is not very reputable there is this too: http://www.rhymes.org.uk/humpty_dumpty.htm

    I guess you could say that there is deeper meanings in...stuff :-s

  • 8 years ago

    It could easily be a political commentary of the time. Like perhaps France and Louis

    Source(s): Just a thought
  • 8 years ago

    humpty dumpty is a egg whatch the video

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No he's just a made up character from a fairy tale

    Source(s): ME!!! :)
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