12-17-2012, 04:38 PM
My favourite poem is The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot. Here's a great reading of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KvkJdcmqek My favourite poems tend to be philosophical and deal with life and death too. I also like a certain cockeyed irony, which is why I like Sylvia Plath. I always feel as though she's writing with a sneer.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe