Which do you like to read, magazines, novels or poems And why? Personally, I prefer poems to magazines and novels. There are a couple of reasons to name. The first reason is that poems can make me calm down better than magazines and novels can do. Before I have read poems, I was bed-tempered and easily-impulsive. However, it is the slow rhythm of poems which helps me control my emotions. Another reason is that poems can express my feelings better than the magazines and novels. Since my girlfriend left to study abroad, I have read ancient Chinese poems everyday and written my own poems once a week to express that I miss my girlfriend deelply.