Hangman Response

I thought that this poem was a metaphor for how people don’t stand up for each other. Each time there was another candidate to be hung the hangman got more and control over the people. The reason he got control over the people was because the villagers were getting weaker and more fearful. I think that when Maurice Ogden wrote: “I did no more than you let me do”. He was trying to tell that person that if the villagers had stood up then the hangman might have stopped killing. The hangman gained power as the villagers lost confidence. I think that Maurice Ogden was trying to show how one person with a lot of power can make people fear for their lives and then they can’t care for others.