Hangman response by Isabelle

This poem was not exactly a poem that I would choose to read. Except the point of this poem was not just to like it, but it was to find the moral. I thought the moral of this poem was not to let something happen until it gets bad but to take a stand before it turns into something unstoppable. It was much like what happened in the holocaust. When Hitler first came to Europe nobody thought he had the power to do any damage. At the time when Hitler was stoppable nobody had the courage to take a stand. By the time people were ready to say something they weren’t strong enough anymore to make an impact. In Hangman almost the same thing happened. I think Maurice Ogden purposely made this poem much like the Holocaust.

One of the sensory images that was very clear was, “ Then a twinkle grew in the buckshot eye,” I pictured a man with a black coat on and black holes in his eyes looking around as he looks for someone to hang. A simile that I found was, “With his buckshot eye and his jaw like a pike.” Since pike means a fish with a long snout and big teeth i think pike would be the perfect description for the way the hangmans jaw looked. This was not only a good simile but it was also a good sensory image.