-Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
-Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
-All the king's horses and all the king's men
-Couldn't put Humpty together again.
Humpty Dumpty is a character from an English nursery rhyme. Although not explicitly described as such, he is often depicted as an anthropomorphic egg. In some versions in Spanish language his name is translated as Zanco Panco or Tentetieso. There is a story about the English civil war that tells that, in 1648, during the siege of the walled city of Colchester by Oliver Cromwell's Parliamentarian troops, they knocked down a powerful and enormous cannon that the Carlists had on one of the walls and that , when the king's men went to try to move it to put it on another wall, they could not due to the weight it had, which would give meaning to the verses of the rhyme.
History[]
Humpty Dumpty has been taken up in many subsequent works of art. The most famous is perhaps his appearance in Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871), by Lewis Carroll (who, in his Spanish translation, is known as Zanco Panco). In the play, Humpty Dumpty discusses semantics and pragmatism with the heroine Alice, explaining to her, in her own way, the meaning of the strange words in the poem "Jabberwocky". The Humpty Dumpty rhyme has also been used as a reference in several major literary works, including as a recurring motif about the fall of man in James Joyce's comic/experimental novel Finnegans Wake (1939). In the correspondence of the French poet Antonin Artaud the character is mentioned in two letters dated 1943.5 The rhyme also plays an important role in the novel La Segunda Muerte de Ramón Mercader (written in French and published in 1969) by the Spanish writer Jorge Semprún. Similarly, Humpty Dumpty is mentioned in Paul Auster's 1985 novel City of Glass (part of The New York Trilogy) when two characters say that he is "the purest embodiment of humanity" and quote extensively from the work of Lewis Carroll. Humpty Dumpty is taken up again in a separate literary work, this time as an adventurer. The work is called "Wonderland: The Origin of Alicia", which has been taking elements of the Vocaliod theme "Alice's human sacrifices" and renews them. This time, the character is an Adventurer who helps "The Fourth Alice" in her journey through Wonderland.