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

Hangman Response

Hangman Response

Hangman was sometimes hard to follow because there was so much going on, you had to read it a few times to understand what the poem was about, but after three times of reading it I knew what the poem was about. Hangman reminded me of World War II because hangman came into a new city and hung a man. Then he hung a Jew a black person the town people didn’t care they thought it was a joke. People thought Hitler was a joke and he isn’t going to do anything but in the end he killed lots of Jewish people. The town people were bystanders because they didn’t say anything to the hangman about him killing people. The most powerful line in the poem to me was “ I did no more than you let me do”.
I saw many sensory images here are some of them “Smelling of gold and blood flame” “We passed those eyes of buckshot lead.” “Then a twinkle grew in his buckshot eye”. The author put the poem into chapter. There were 4 chapters. The poem was also a rhyming poem.

By Sharon

Sari's Response on Hangman

I thought Hangman by Maurice Ogden was a really good poem. This poem reminded me of World War II because, in World War II Hitler killed people who weren’t like him and no one stopped him. In this poem the hangman killed people who weren’t like him and no one tried to stop him. I thought it had an interesting twist because in the end the narrator dies.

Sam's thoughts on The Hangman by Maurice Ogden

This is one of the strongest poems I have read this year. The first thing that came to my mind after reading The Hangman was World War Two. Hitler started with the Jews, and people around the Jews didn’t say stop. They didn’t care because they weren’t being harmed. Then Hitler ordered more and more people to be killed and no one said anything, just like in the poem. A very powerful line in the poem is when the hangman says, “First the alien, then the Jew…I did no more than you let me do.” This poem teaches you that you can’t sit quietly and ignore problems because they don’t directly affect you. For example, right now there are children starving and being used as slaves in other parts of the world. We have to help even though the problem doesn’t effect us.

The poem’s cadence and rhymes make it sound lovely and gentle. I wonder if Maurice Ogden chose that format to show you that you have to go a little deeper and think about what’s going on and not just be happy if nothing is bothering you. For example, should I be happy if my life is lovely and gentle, but other kids are suffering?

-Sam

hangman poem

I can connect to this poem because when I was in Barkerville I went to an old courthouse. this courthouse was famous because the presiding judge was known as the hanging. Judge. this judge was feared by the towns people just like the hangman in the poem. if I had been a towns person there knowing I was innocent of any crime I still would have feared the hangman and the hanging judge.

Matts Thoughts On The Hangman

This poem was a one that took time and effort.  Maurice Ogden showed how much effort and work he put into it.

              This poem was just amazing in so many different ways.  It would take me days to name all of them.  The thing that I liked about this poem is that you can go many ways with it.  Some people don’t like it some people enjoyed it.  The point is that Ogden didn’t just lead you one-way with this. You could think any way you want about this poem.

             The thing that I found interesting is that after reading a poem many time there is still more to discover.  The poem was really good at that.  The more times I read this poem more ideas and thoughts pop into my head.

Matt:)

Hangman Respose

Hangman is about a man who comes into a new place. He is like Hitler because at the beginning every body was laughing at him. Later he came into power and picked on this town like Hitler did on the jews. After a couple of days the hangman kept on killing people. Every body was scared so no one would stand up. At the end of the poem there was one man left a jew. The hangman then tricked the jew into coming out and then killing him just like Hitler tricked the jews to go into the gas chambers.

I think that this poem is about holocaust because every thing the hangman did to this town was almost like what Hitler did to the world.

3rd draft of horse poem

Hey guys, Heres draft 3, hope you like it.:) *And also, I decided to kind of make it like the movie "Spirit"- of how Canada and the U.S. had to get rid of all the animals to make our homes... Kind of emphasizing part of the horse's life.

Galloping through the tall green grass.

Letting the wind go through my tail,

And rustle between the hairs of my

Mane.



Playing games in the dry canyon walls,

to finding new places and adventures

through out my area.



I was the leader of the heard.

And with that job came responsibility.

A lot of it.


At some points I got really curious.

And at some points, too curious,

That's how I endangered the whole heard

and especially, my pride.


Plz. comment:) ~nini~

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.

Hangman Response

The poem “The Hangman” was not my favorite poem. Even though it was filled with metaphors, similes and sensory images the topic of this poem is not really something I would want to read if I had the choice. But then I realized the moral of the poem was what really mattered.

I thought this poem was a great example of how people quickly become powerful and that we have to act before it gets any bigger. Kind of like Hitler, the Jews thought that he was not going to do any harm at first but soon enough he killed six million people. Just like the hangman in the poem, the people were told he was hanging people to test something out bout soon enough he had hanged half the city.

The whole idea of this poem was just amazing. It really makes me think more about my past and how those six million Jews died. It really shows how lucky we are to be living like we do. Maurice Ogden shows that by not caring about what is happening sometimes leads to big consequences.

THE HANGMAN RESPONSE

The poem 'Hangman' was a great poem by M. Ogden. It reminds me of WWII, when it started it out small then to 6 000 000 Jews.
How he the speaker like most people in the holocaust did nothing to stop Hitler. As the hangman said to the speaker," I did no more than you let me do.'' Which the bystanders of WWII did the same.  In the end, the speaker got what he let the hangman do to the other villagers. This was a rhyming poem. This was the best poem I have ever read, I give it a 5/5.

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.

Hangman History

The Hangman poem, by Maurice Ogden, reminded me of when I was at Acco Prison in Israel. The prison was used to hang the ‘Irgun’ freedom fighters during the war of Independence. I saw the gallows where Jews were killed as prisoners of war. The room was dark, cold and made of cement. In the center there was a noose and a trap door. Even though I was only in grade three I remember exactly what it looked like. When I was reading this poem I imagined the prison again.

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Bayle

the hangman

Even though this wasnt my faveorite poem there were lots of diffrent ways that I like it. I thought this poem was very well written and very detailed about how the hangman looks like his buckshot eyes.I can connect to this poem becouse it remindes me of the holocost and as being jewish the holocost is a big thing for me and lots of other people.

-mikaela

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i cant seem to write the hang man response can anyone help