Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty is a character from a British nursery rhyme. He is a human-like egg, which is not explicitly mentioned in the text of the quatrain. In the English -speaking world this nursery rhyme is popular for centuries and something like an integral part of the collection of nursery rhymes in Mother Goose. Outside the English -speaking world it was especially so known because Lewis Carroll let him perform in Alice Through the Looking Glass (1871 ) ( in German translation is called Humpty Dumpty Humpty Dumpty here ). There he discussed with Alice about semantics, telling her, among other things, the neologisms Jabberwocky. As a " Humpty Dumpty " is also often referred to by English native speakers and a small plump person. Every now and then, however, it is the synonym for something fragile that one hardly can repair at all or again.

A free German translation reads:

Another:

Theories of origin

• The Tourism Authority of East Anglia According to Humpty Dumpty was a cannon that was built in 1648 at the siege held by royal troops town of Colchester in the English Civil War erected on the tower of the church of St Mary 's at the Wall and brought down by a cannon kill the Republican besiegers. Neither the royal cavalry nor infantry ( = " All the King's horses and all the King's men ... " ), however, could accomplish anything.
• Humpty Dumpty was according to another theory, a nickname for the English King Richard III. , Is said to have contemporary reportedly had a humped back. At the battle of Bosworth Field, he was knocked off the horse and then chopped into pieces.
• Martin Gardner assumed that Humpty Dumpty is an old slang word for "Dub " is.

As Humpty Dumpty arguments allegations are referred to, ( 1 ) which are given in a discussion as valid without any other justification for it is entered as the reference to de facto power, which makes it possible to dispense with real arguments, or ( 2 ) in which words are used with a meaning that starkly differs from the generally accepted meaning ( cf. idiosyncrasy ).

Music

• In the music scene there are several quotes from the nursery rhyme again, such as in Travis ' The Humpty Dumpty Love Song, the last song on her album The Invisible Band ( 2001). Already in the first lines makes use Fran Healy of the wording of the quatrain: "All of the king 's horses / And all of the king's men / Couldn 't pull my heart back together again / / All of the physicians / And mathematicians too / Failed. to stop my heart from breaking in two. " becomes clear in the course of the text, that only the sung person is capable of, the heart of the narrator put it back together, which is represented in the actual nursery rhyme as impossible. Therefore, the conclusion is: " Yeah you got the glue / So I'm gonna give my heart to you. "
• Tori Amos has also recorded a song Humpty Dumpty. Published on the China Single B-side.
• The Beastie Boys have on their album Paul 's Boutique a song called Egg Man published, in which it says: " ... Humpty Dumpty was a big fat egg He what playing the wall then he broke his leg ... ".
• In The Alan Parsons Project The Turn of a Friendly Card, a gambler who has set everything and lost everything, it says in the third verse, " And not all the king 's horses and all the king's men / Have Prevented the fall of the unwise ".
• In the piece Mr. Beat the band Miime, which like the typical electro -1980s sounding side project of the formation Samsa's Dream, which was released as part of an EP on the bonus CD of the album arachnoid (2003), is the first line of the bridge " I what walking down the sidewalk of old Humpty Dumpty - Street ".
• Also, Joss Stone published on their album The Soul Sessions a song under the title All the kings horses. The first line refers to the Humpty Dumpty rhyme ". All the king's horses and all the king's men / They could not put our two hearts together again "
• The band blemishes published in 1998 a single called Hampty Dampty.
• Mel Brooks sings in his Hitler Parody To Be Or Not To Be "Like Humpty Dumpty did over wall, / All the little countries They began to fall: / Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, / The troops were rockin ' and the tanks were rollin '. "