In children’s books, Humpty Dumpty is portrayed as a large egg, usually dressed like a little boy. Humpty DumptyĪll the King’s Horses and all the King’s men A handful do not reference historical events at all, but instead seem to convey warnings or common sense wisdom. It’s only when you stop and absorb the actual words of these catchy, sing-song rhymes that the darkness and absurdity is realized.
They have been so ingrained in us since childhood that we hardly notice that babies are falling from trees, women are held captive or live animals are being cooked. Other nursery rhymes don’t seem to carry a particular message at all, but convey a macabre sense of humor. Under the guise of children’s entertainment, many rhymes that were encoded with secret messages throughout history have endured the test of time and are still with us today. The “Adam and Eve” rhyme made peasants realize that they were important to the economy and contributed to the Peasants Revolt of 1381. While the Bubonic Plaque ravaged England, peasants used a rhyme to spread the word about equality. The first nursery rhymes can be traced back to the fourteenth century. In order to communicate at will, clever rhymes were constructed and passed around to parody public figures and events. Gossiping, criticizing the government or even talking about current events were often punishable by death. In more repressed times, people were not always allowed to express themselves freely, for fear of persecution.
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