Title: Galgenlieder

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galgenlieder

Galgenlieder (transl. Gallows Songs) is a collection of poems by Christian Morgenstern. Following ten years of writing work, it was first published in March 1905 by Bruno Cassirer. And illustrations in a different edition were done by the famous Switzerland Cuban and surrealist artist, Paul Klee in 1914. Basically, in these poems are weird and half macabre sensorying around gallows which it was quite known for gallows humor. Some of them would actually feature a certain item, furniture, a tool, an animal, an insect, or even a lost limb. Some parts of the poems even has the telling of characters. Palmstroem who is some type of person wandering around, expecting something to happen to him, but it doesn't, because he's lonely. The Gallows child who's a child of gallows hill has a trouble of thinking, but mostly he is to be a representation of a child who has depression. The Raven Ralph is a normal raven who ends up eating gallows food, and in the poem, he lays dead at the end. The moonsheep who is a normal sheep with white Fleece who is waiting to be sheared, also he's up passing away that very morning of the poem. Some of which theorized that the sheep supposed to be a representation of death and time. A knee is a disembodied knee who wanders around the earth after being shot in the war. Sophia, who is the executioner's servant, in one poem Where the hangman sings a song to her that he's dead, but she's nobly great. Some theorized that he is it supposed to represent Jack ketch. Film Adaptations Canti della forca (Gallows Songs) is a live action stop motion film made in italy in 2014. Animated and Directed by Stefano Bessoni features five poems in it, while focusing on the creator himself.