What is the meaning of Ring around the Rosie?

Answer 1

Ring around the Rosie, A pocket full of Posies, Ashes Ashes we all fall down.

Ring around the Rosie is a children's song sung with smiling, laughing and hand-holding, but did you know it actually has very morbid roots? In the 13th century, the Black Death (also called the Black Plague) killed so many people, many thought it was the end of the world. The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" came about during the time of the Black Death.

Here are what the lyrics mean:

Ring around the rosie is a reference to the black sores that would appear on your body as part of the plague. Your "rosie" is around the center of the back of your hand.

A pocket full of posies is a reference to people would carrying posies (flowers) around to not smell the sickening scent of dead bodies everywhere.

Ashes Ashes signifies the ashes from all the bodies being burned on pyres. Bodies couldn't be buried or else the infection would spread.

We all fall down signifies death or people falling down to hell because of their harsh and cruel ways.

Answer 2

The song Ring Around the Rosie refers to the Black Plague.

Here are the meaning of the lyrics.....

"Ring around a rosie..."---refers to the first sign of plague, red rings surrounding a rosy bump all over the victims body

"Pocket full of posy..."---refers to the fact that people would carry around flowers to deal with the smell of death and to keep their own local air smelling sweet. At the time it was believed that the virus was borne on "foul air".

One the other hand another sign of the plaque was the foul stench that was given off from the victim's body as lymph system began filling with blood. Those who where still mobile tried to mask their stench and avoid detection by carrying flowers on them.

"Ashes, Ashes..."---refers to when the victims where in the terminal phase of the disease they would be hommerhaging internally sometimes causing sneezes as it irritated the breathing passage. "Ashes" is a child's approximation of a peroxysm of sneezing.

"we all fall down..."---During the Black Plague, it is estimated that, 30%-60% of Europe's population was killed

In the terminal phases of the disease, victims would be hemorrhaging internally, sometimes triggering sneezing as it irritated the breathing passages. "Ashes" is a child's approximation of a paroxysm of sneezing. In this weakened state, a victim could, and often did, sneeze their lungs out. Messy...

hat would begin to emanate from the victim's body as their lymph system began filling with blood. Those still mobile endeavored to mask their stench and avoid detection by carrying flowers on their person hat would begin to emanate from the victim's body as their lymph system began filling with blood. Those still mobile endeavored to mask their stench and avoid detection by carrying flowers on their person

Answer 3

---"Ring around the Rosie"--refers to a red mark, supposedly the first sign of the plague

---"A pocket full of posies"-- refers to sachets of herbs carried to ward off infection

---"Ashes, ashes" --either a reference to the cremation of plague victims or to the words said in the funeral Mass..."Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Sometimes line three is rendered as "Atischoo, atischoo"--sneezing, another sign of infection.

---"We all fall down." -- The Plague was not selective in its victims; both rich and poor, young and old, succumbed.

Answer 4

Ring around the Rosie, A pocket full of Posies, Ashes Ashes we all fall down.

Ring around the Rosie is a children's song sung with smiling, laughing and hand-holding, but did you know it actually has very morbid roots? In the 13th century, the Black Death (also called the Black Plague) killed so many people, many thought it was the end of the world. The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" came about during the time of the Black Death.

Here are what the lyrics mean:

Ring around the rosie is a reference to the black sores that would appear on your body as part of the plague. Your "rosie" is around the center of the back of your hand.

A pocket full of posies is a reference to people would carrying posies (flowers) around to not smell the sickening scent of dead bodies everywhere.

Ashes Ashes signifies the ashes from all the bodies being burned on pyres. Bodies couldn't be buried or else the infection would spread.

We all fall down signifies death or people falling down to hell because of their harsh and cruel ways.

Answer 5

Ring around the rosy (a rash near your wrist, where the deadly disease starts) pocket full of poesy (poesy is a type of flower that people put into dead peoples pockets so they won't smell) ashes, ashes (sometimes people burn dead people into ashes as a religion) we all fall down! (that means that we all die).

Answer 6

"Ring Around the Rosie" is believed to be a nursery rhyme that originated in England during the Bubonic Plague in the 17th century. The lyrics describe symptoms of the plague, such as a rosy rash and the smell of flowers used to mask the odor of illness. The rhyme is thought to be a playful way to pass down a dark piece of history through generations.

Answer 7

Its a baby game come on people!