2006-09-09 02:51:04 · 5 answers · asked by Alex Y 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
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 irreparably 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 Lille Trille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
2006-09-09 02:56:11 · answer #1 · answered by peachez082 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. The poem is a riddle, and the answer is that Humpty Dumpty is an egg. Now people mostly assume that he was an egg with arms, legs, and clothes, but an egg, nonetheless
From Wikipedia: 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 irreparably 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 Lille Trille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
2006-09-09 09:55:27 · answer #2 · answered by isayssoccer 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It never states in the nursery rhyme that he is actually an egg.
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2006-09-09 09:56:05 · answer #3 · answered by Bobbi-Jo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If memories serve, i dont think it contained this sentence.. The picture shown an egg..So thats why..
2006-09-09 09:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by escondido_cinnamon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its the pictures, he sat on the wall and fell, as you can see , he broke in lots of peices, you gotta look at the pictures
2006-09-09 09:54:19 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋