Influences On Howard Nemerov's Poetry

Besides Howard Nemerov serving in the military he had 3 ways that shaped his poetry in three ways. After he served in the war his poems were more religion based. Later after the war when he settled down his poems were more nature orientated. But throughout his whole poetry it is laced with funny poems with a serious note. While Howard Nemerov’s style of poetry changed with age some of the main themes of his poetry were nature, humor but with a more serious note and religion.

Howard Nemerov was a poet in the 20th Century. He was born in New York and Graduated from The Society for Ethical Culture’s Fieldstone School in 1937. After that he studied at Harvard where he got his bachelors in 1941. One of the most interesting things about Mr. Nemerov’s life was that he served in the Royal Canadian unit of the U.S. Army Air Force. Many poet analysts think that the time he spent in the army shaped his poetry later. They think the period he went through where he wrote about morals

Nemerov’s poetry was a more serious philosophical tone. Mr. Nemerov tied this into his nature poems but really it was throughout all of his poetry. You can find it in his funny poetry that has an underlying meaning, or you can find it in his nature poetry. In an example of this philosophical mindset from his book Poets on Poetry he writes, “An unknowingly large part of a materiel world whose independent existence might be likened to that of the human unconscious a sleep cause, a chaos of the possible-impossible.” This type of poetry and just writing in general can be found in not all but throughout Mr. Nemerov’s writing. The last theme from Mr. Nemerov’s writing is probably the most widely known by poets and thought of as Mr. Nemerov’s trademark. This is His funny poetry that sometimes had a more serious meaning behind the poem. This type of poetry though, has been criticized for becoming almost bitter. Another critic says that “this manner is and exceedingly tired