by Jacob Woods

Created on: May 27, 2011

The terms mood, style, location, topic, and grammar will be used loosely in this article in order to describe tips for writing poetry. Mood, style, location, time of day, topic, and grammar all play off one another to create your original poetry. Poetry is really fun to write and it doesn’t require as much time as it does some simple thought. In this tutorial on tips for poetry you will see how each individual topic plays off the next.

Mood – Mood here refers to not just the mood of the poetry itself, but the mood that you are in when you create your poetry. The optimum time for writing is usually when you are thinking clearly. But if you really want to bring some emotions and feeling into your works, write when you are angry, crying, furious, anxious, scared, frightened, happy, excited, frail, or whatever it is you may be feeling. When your mind is clear, you can have more control over the mood of your poetry, when you are upset or happy, the poetry will develop it’s own mood based on how you are feeling. The fun is if you are working on a project that you want to be scary, watch a scary movie and start writing after it's finished!

Style – The style here refers to the idiosyncratic feeling that a writer brings to their work. A poem can be happy, sad, scary, funny, etc, but the style is the specific feeling a writer brings to their poetry. When writing poetry, develop a style of writing. Do you like to make things rhyme all the time? Do you like to use awesome alliteration and imagery like a face in the mirror? Do you like prose and disgruntled line breaks? Or are you a prose writer who like to rebel against society? What makes poetry yours and not the millions of other poets who write about the four seasons?

Location – Where is your poem located? Not all poems have a location but all poems are written at a location. If you are writing a poem about a swan you might want to find the nearest river or animal sanctuary containing swans. If you are writing about a cemetery, head to the cemetery. If you really want to punch a poem out, watch a scary movie to set your mood and head to the cemetery at midnight to write. (Bring a flashlight.) Where you write often has an effect on what you write. You can’t write everything in a coffee shop or your computer desk. That doesn’t bring the spirit to your writing. Writing at a grave will.

Time of Day – If you are a morning person, you might be happy in the morning. This will

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