Rather than Klein's more stagnant relationship with his father, a man locked, in the past, the subject of the poem "Keine Lazarovitch" is almost as complex as the ebb and flux of Jewish life as a whole, rather than one segment of it, and her hold upon Layton is likewise more stormy, cyclical, and complex than the relationship of old to young detailed in Klein's poem about his father.
In Klein's poem the physicality of the father's books function the touchstone with which the poet accesses his father's memory, rather than his physical, father -- the father in death, much like the father in life is of the book, rather than a loving and guiding force, or even a force to be clashed with, as in Layton's poem. Klein's poem makes reference to the father's pamphlets, prayers, and tomes, as if these are the subjects of the man's life entirely, more than being a father, and even the astronomical metaphor towards the end of the poem makes reference to the Torah, rather than the real heavens. The final stanza depicts how the poet, "When reading in these treatises some weird/Miracle, I turned a leaf and found/a white hair fallen from my father's beard." (17-19) Even the physical self of the father is only touched through books, and it is a miracle the poet even has that much of a connection to his remote father of a lost Jewish past of learning.
But although similarly, "Keine Lazarovitch" is a poem of specificity, of specific dates much like the specific Jewish references to the "Books of the Baal Shem Tov, and of his wonders," (5) Layton's poem is a poem of modern specificity and connection, about...
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