You know the creepy part about humpty dumpty is that they never said he was a egg. Which leads me to believe that humpty dumpty was a human. Why was the king so drunk that he let his horses try and fix him? For that you will have to wait for the answer. What of it is a type of metaphor? The metaphor being that humpty dumpty is a broken person that is so broken that no one can fix them so that in he. What if he was the King's son? Back to the question earlier 'why was the king so drunk that he would let his horses try and fix humpty dumpty' what if the king was not drunk but deeply saddened and desperate to save his son. Or maybe he was a plague victim.
