The Hangman response by Danny G.

The Hangman poem reminded me of Hitler because the Hangman was killing all different races and different types of people for no reason, which is exactly what Hitler. There is also a big moral to the poem that I didn't understand at first but then it made a lot more sense. The moral is, is that if you think you are doing nothing at all, you are still doing everything by doing nothing. What I mean by that, is that in the poem the Hangman was killing people, and everyone was watching but not doing anything to stop him. They all thought that they were doing nothing by watching him and not acting. But since they were not stopping him, they were then doing him a favour by not stopping it, which was doing something.

Danny G.

Paragraph on "The Hangman"

This poem reminded me of World War 2 when I read it. It reminded me of World War 2 because in the war Hitler killed blacks, Jews and people who were different from him. In the poem the Hang man killed the same people as Hitler did. This poem also reminded me of World War 2 because in the war there were many countries that didn’t join the war until later on and didn’t let Jews into their country. They were being bystanders. In the poem the town’s people were also being bystanders because they didn’t stop the Hangman from killing the other people.

The Hangman Sensory Images

Stanza # 1 Sensory Images:

-“Smelling of gold and blood flame”

-“The scaffold stood by the courthouse side, only as wide as the door was wide; with a frame as tall, or a little more, than the capping sill of the courthouse door. “

-“The hangman judged with the yellow twist of knotted hemp in his busy fist.”

-“We passed those eyes of buckshot lead.”

-“Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye”

-“And he stepped down and laid his hand on a man who came from another land,”

-Aviva

Hangman Paragraph

Hangman is the most powerful poem I have ever read. With so many sensory images, "Hangman" lets you make your own movie inside your head. It is so condensed that you could white a paragraph for every line in the poem. Even the fifth time I read it i still found out things I never knew before.

Jacque

The Paragraph for the Poem Hangman

I thought that this poem relates to Hitler, because when Hitler became powerfull everybody thought that he was a joke. Just like the Hangman who everybody thought that he was just goingg to kill the man from outer town. After the hangman murdered the man from outer town everybody thought that he was going to leave, like Hitler. I thought that the hang man killed everybody because, because he wanted everybody to be just like him, like Hitler when he wanted everybody to be perfect.

“The Hangman, by Maurice Ogden”.

This poem made me think, remember and never forget. This poem was one big metaphor to me. The Holocaust in disguise, people were being killed. Nobody said it was wrong. Bystanders/ most of the world during the Holocaust/ the towns people. What a shame. The Victims/ Blacks, Jews, Disabled, Gays/ The infidel, Jew, Black, alien one and eventually the whole town plus the speaker.

We read a perfect example of how people can quickly become powerful and how we have to act before that power gets to us.

A lesson.

So many hidden meanings and riddles, that it just intrigues me more to read the poem over and over again.

Sick and disturbing mental pictures drive me away from the poem.

I have to know about my past and to make sure that I don't live one day without thinking of those people who died to make my life better today. Jews, non-Jews. I have to be aware and not let myself slip like the town's people in Ogden’s poem.

With this I conclude by saying that “The Hangman” was the best poem I have ever read. I recommend that everybody should read it. All Races, Religions, grannies, grandpas, moms and dads.

Marc L. 6A

Hangman

I thought that the poem hangman had alot of sensory images and used a lot of metaphors too. There were a lot of words I didn't understand but altogether, it made me look back and remember what had happend to all of us.


~nini~

Hangman

Wow guys, I'm speechless about the poem hangman that we read yesterday! I think we should do some resherch on Maurice Ogden and see if he wrote any other poems