what's the meaning of the song "ring around the rosie"?

Answer 1

Ring around the rosie,
Pocketful of posies.
Ashes, ashes.
We all fall down.

From what I have learned over the course of my life... the first line evokes the round red rash that would break out on the skin of plague victims. The second line's "pocket full of posies" would have been a pocket in the garment of a victim filled with something fragrant, such as flowers that aimed to conceal the smell from the sores and the dying people. Alternatively it referred to the common belief that fresh-smelling flowers, nosegays, and pomanders would purify the air around them thus warding off disease as was believed from the miasma theory of disease. A third possibility includes the idea that "posies" are derived from an Old English word for pus, in which case the pocket would be referring to the swelling sore. Finally: "ashes, ashes," the sneezing before "we all fall down", the eventual succumbing to death.

Answer 2

Ring Around The Rosie Song

Answer 3

Ring Around The Rosie Meaning

Answer 4

The song is actually evil this is my opinion only .-. I the song it talks about a young girl in a village one day the village burnt down when the song says a pocket full of posies it means a kind of flower that takes out the smell of death when it says we all fall down it means the village has bean burnt down this is only my opinion as for the news the village was re build and there is a rumor ghost haunts it there are places when u visit it that are off limits because they have to much para normal activity in it and for every Halloween they will throw an event on Halloween to Honor the dead but that is the night were it all happens again and again and again 0-0 I only know this cause I live by the village.

Answer 5

theres much gossip about the meaning of ring around the rosie really talking about smallpox and how it is an evil song. They say ring around the rosie is the ring around the red sore you get and pocket full of posie is talking about how its filled with dust. And the ashes ashes we all fall down is talking about when you die the burn you to ashes to keep the disease from spreading. They are not sure if this is completely true or not, they are not sure if the people where just trying to make a myth or un veiling a terribly truth

Answer 6

It's all about the bubonic plague and how the children in that time made up songs about what was going on...
ring around the rosie- had to do with the shape and color of the marks that indicated the disease.
pocket full of posies-people would carry posies-atype of flower-around in their pockets to hide the smell of the many rotting corpses.
ashes, ashes, we all fall down-falling to death.

Answer 7

RE:
what's the meaning of the song "ring around the rosie"?

Answer 8

Ring around the Rosie, A pocketful of posies...ashes ashes..we all fall down.

Answer 9

ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes, ashes , we all fall down. that rhyme actually talks about the black death plague. ring around the rosies could mean them passing roses around to hid the stench or passing of the disease. kinda weird that as little girls we would sing this and laugh.

Answer 10

in ancient england,centuries ago..there's a spread of plague. and children (since there are less immune to the disease compared to adults) who caught the disease have rahes on their skin forming red rings. although it seems like a harmless lullaby, in truth it commamerates (wrong spellign) the old days.



and if u notice the lyrics..we all fall down -- that means they die..