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Anonymous  #217316  Tue, 18 Apr 06 09:11 PM
The poem is called "The Hangman" and it was written by Maurice Ogden.
  
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Anonymous  #222864  Sat, 06 May 06 01:42 AM
its called "The Hangman". i'm sorry but i dont know who it was by. my english teacher read it to me too
  
Anonymous  #231165  Thu, 01 Jun 06 01:39 AM
I totally love this poem tooSmile [:)] Even though everyone was like 'what?' when we heard that for first time, I caught the meaning right away. And I heve never read anything that good before, I mean talking about staying quiet whan you should stand up for sometnig. And another thing is, it is not just about the Jew being quit when whoever got killed and then it was their turn. It is rather about EVERYONE during WWII, because there were lot of like French or Polish people who were ignorants for what was happening. I say 'a lot of them' but I should have said 'some' . I just do not want to offend anyone. I know that these were hard times and there still were so many good peopleSmile [:)] So do not miss understood the poem, because  even though it was written about WWII, it can be associated with many dates in history
  
Anonymous  #252193  Fri, 04 Aug 06 07:20 AM
This is by Ogden Nash I believe. Hope that helps
  
Anonymous  #259942  Sun, 27 Aug 06 08:23 PM
The poem is simply called "The Hangman," and it's by Maurice Ogden.
  
Philip  #289273  Sat, 04 Nov 06 03:33 PM
 Khoff wrote:

 I would disagree with your teacher's suggestion that it showed the mentaility of most Jewish people during WWII, who mostly kept their heads down and avoided trouble in the hopes that it'll just stop on it's own.   I think it shows the mentality of the "regular" people, who did not protest as long as the victims were "others" - foreigners, Jews, etc. 

I agree that the poet should have meant that....I hope he did, for I think it is a much better lesson, as your poetic example is.

  
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Anonymous  #297154  Fri, 24 Nov 06 01:43 PM

I remember when I was in grade school, a teacher brought a video to class called "The Hangman". It was a cartoon, but it was very dark, disturbing, moross thng done in not quite colorless greys. The whole cartoon was done in a poem. It was all very morbid I even thought back then. I'm in my 40s now and still remember the hangman, barely more than a shadow with eyes, killing the people of this town one by one untill they were all gone except one man whom the hangman told he was going to be hanged for not stopping the hangman from killing everyone else.

Wow, what a messege for a bunch of 5th graders! Ive never seen it again since, but would like to find a copy of that cartoon.

  
Anonymous  #299000  Wed, 29 Nov 06 10:23 PM
The poem is "The Hangman" by Maurice Ogden
  
Anonymous  #300302  Mon, 04 Dec 06 03:32 AM
Thanks so much for putting the poem on here, I had to write a paper on this and was having problems finding it. by the way it is an awesome poem
  
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