Poetic Comparison

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The paper discusses how both poems namely, "Heirloom" and "Keine Lazarovitch" deal with the subject of parental death from the perspective of Jewish culture and faith. The paper also highlights the differences between the two poems, Layton eulogizes his mother and Klein his father. The author of the paper highlights the different tones of the two poems and cites examples to qualify these differences.

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"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 the loneliness of growing old that the poet once witnessed in his mother, that he now experiences in his own life, rather than the "Pamphlets upon the devil and his crew;
Prayers against road demons, witches, thunders;/And sundry other tomes for a good Jew," of Klein. (8-10) Layton does not take on the older voice of an older Jewish era, as does Klein. Klein's efforts to access his ultimately inaccessible father, lost to another time only come through books-but Layton's efforts come after he has lived and grown old like his mother, and can appreciate her struggle and frustration with the limits of her existence and advancing age in his own body."

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