Hangman Response from Vanessa

Something very unique about "The Hangman" (by Maurice Ogden), is in the last stanza, when the speaker dies.That specifically caught my eye, because in most poems the speaker lives "happily ever after".

The words "He laid his hand upon my hand," lets you make assumptions of what is going to happen next. You soon find out that, the speaker will be hanged beneath the scaffold. I thought it was interesting to have someone explain their own death. I liked how Maurice Ogden let the speaker get hanged in the end because it was VERY unexpected.

Vanessa 6A