hangman response

This poem is such an amazing poem - its one of my favorites. It tells the story of the holocaust. My favorite stanza is:

"into our town the hang man came
smelling of gold blood and flame
and he paced our bricks with a diffident air
and built his frame on the courthouse square"

It makes me imagine a scary monster - the Hangman. He has come to town to hang people and take their money. When the poem says "smelling of gold and flame" it makes me feel that this killer has burnt down peoples homes and taken their money. when the poet uses the word smell he brings up really powerful sensory images.
The hangman is also very much like the frame. As the frame grows on peoples blood, so the hangman grows from peoples money and death.