Gallows Humor, but not really

I've been wanting to do something music related. I just learned about this really cool Ravel piece called Gaspard de La Nuit. It is a piano piece in three movements each based on a poem by French poet Aloysius Betrand. It's the middle movement Le Gibet (The Gallows) the particularly interests me. Here is the poem on which the music is based.

Le Gibet (The Gallows)

Ah! Could what I hear be the yelping of the cold night wind, or the hanged man giving forth a sigh

on the gallows fork.

Could it be some cricket singing, crouched in the moss and the sterile ivy that the forest wears out of

pity?

Could it be some fly on the hunt, blowing its horn around those ears deaf to the fanfare of tally-hos?

Could it be some beetle plucking, in its uneven flight a bloody hair from its bald skull?

Or could it be some spider embroidering a half yard of muslin as a tie for that strangled neck?

It is the bell tolling to the walls of a city under the horizon, and the carcass of a hanged man

reddened by the setting sun.

The piece is just so eerie. One of the most interesting parts is a repeated figure throughout the whole piece that sounds like a bell tolling, or maybe the hanged man swaying, if you want to look at it that way. Take a listen.