ArgonianVoter
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this is the earliest form of the poem:
I think Humpty Dumpty was supposed to be a clumsy drunken idiot who fell down and died from his injuries. and that he needed over 80 nurses/healers/doctors to put him together but couldn't be because his injuries were too severe so he died.
The rhyme never says he’s an egg, that came much later, mostly from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1871), where Humpty is depicted as a talking egg.
No he is not a cannon either; that theory was originally pushed as satire and people took it seriously.
the theory fits well with how the rhyme could’ve been understood colloquially. “Humpty Dumpty” was 17th-century slang for a grotesque unusual, clumsy person, sometimes a drunk one; as well as a type of ale. Imagining him as a drunken fool who fell off a wall, got fatally injured, and then had a whole royal staff try to save him but fail makes a ton of sense when you consider this.
"Four-score men and four-score more" should be about 160
Either that means he was attended by 80 medical peresonell and 80 new ones switched out or 160 collectively looked after him.
this would only be plausible in St Bartholomew’s during that time period, so if Humpty Dumpty was based on a real person I suspect that this is where they were treated and died.
I think Humpty Dumpty was supposed to be a clumsy drunken idiot who fell down and died from his injuries. and that he needed over 80 nurses/healers/doctors to put him together but couldn't be because his injuries were too severe so he died.
The rhyme never says he’s an egg, that came much later, mostly from Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass (1871), where Humpty is depicted as a talking egg.
No he is not a cannon either; that theory was originally pushed as satire and people took it seriously.
the theory fits well with how the rhyme could’ve been understood colloquially. “Humpty Dumpty” was 17th-century slang for a grotesque unusual, clumsy person, sometimes a drunk one; as well as a type of ale. Imagining him as a drunken fool who fell off a wall, got fatally injured, and then had a whole royal staff try to save him but fail makes a ton of sense when you consider this.
"Four-score men and four-score more" should be about 160
Either that means he was attended by 80 medical peresonell and 80 new ones switched out or 160 collectively looked after him.
this would only be plausible in St Bartholomew’s during that time period, so if Humpty Dumpty was based on a real person I suspect that this is where they were treated and died.
