The ways poets express through their writing.

There are numerous ways for a poet to express whatever emotion they feel towards a event, situation, or feeling. Depending on the individual poet, there style of writing varies. For example, a rapper's choice of words to express themselves varies drastically in accordance to Shakespeare. However, both writers works need to be looked deep into in order to take in and digest the full meaning and emotions behind the words. Because of the different variations and complexity, it makes poetry interesting and unique due to all the differences among every poem.

To further portray their individuality and emotion, literary elements are used to create a more definite image of what the writer wants to be projected in the readers mind. They use similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbolic statements and many others to define a certain point that they are determined to make.