2006-08-09 06:25:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
You're right, it doesn't say it directly. That's part of the riddle, which is the point of the rhyme. However, since you can't "put Humpty together again" after the fall, an egg would make sense.
I believe it also came from the original illustrations that went with the rhyme, which pictured him as an egg.
2006-08-09 06:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:
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.
That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreperably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Thille Lille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
2006-08-09 13:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by belladona_ph 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:
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.
That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreperably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Thille Lille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
2006-08-09 13:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by miketorse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humpty Dumpty (an egg) sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty (an egg) had a great fall
All the King's horses & all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
2006-08-09 13:30:52 · answer #4 · answered by Sanober 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2006-08-09 13:31:17 · answer #5 · answered by Jubei 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow, this question seems familiar...LOL
I got a Best Answer for this one not that long ago...*wink wink hint hint*
It was a children's riddle before it was a rhyme...the answer to the riddle is that Humpty Dumpty was an egg...
2006-08-09 13:29:28 · answer #6 · answered by mynx326 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't
It's along the lines of old riddles and rhymes.
- - - - -
Riddle me riddle me rot tot tote
A wee little man in a red red coat
A staff in his hand and a stone in his throat
If you answer my riddle, I'll give you a groat
- - - - -
and such, where the fun was to guess what it meant.
2006-08-09 13:29:50 · answer #7 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It never says it directly, it just implies it. Why else wouldn't all the kings' horses and all the kings' men been able to put him back together again?
2006-08-09 19:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it shows picture
2006-08-09 13:29:45 · answer #9 · answered by jingles_200 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the picture.
2006-08-09 13:33:15 · answer #10 · answered by Clairebear. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋