Love In Troubadour Poems

In the troubadour tradition, love is both a thing that the poet pursues and a thing that pursues the poet. It can fulfill the poet and drive him crazy at the same time. The troubadour poem that I have chosen to help prove this is the poem, "On true love are all my thoughts bent." This poem is in the troubadour style of canso, or "love song," as opposed to being a sirventes, or "political song." Like in minnesinger poems, many lines in this poem have rhymes, which means "the pattern of repeated sounds in a poem," that contribute to the flow and the romanticism of the poem. I believe that this poem expresses the idea that love is both a great and terrible thing in that it is great because love brings the poet honour and in him it brings out a true heart. But love is also terrible, as shown when the poet's service to love brings him only pain and torment, and when the poet talks about how he sins in loving her for he can never be with her. In
It can drive a man to madness and it can also teach him many things. Troubadour tradition is based around the idea of a love that is both good and bad, and that love should be filled with hopeless romantics and obstacles keeping lovers apart. Troubadour poetry is still relevant in on our society, and has influenced the work of poets and musicians from Dante Alighieri to Johnny Cash. Love in these poems is a twisted, confusing concept that the poets and their readers alike struggle with understanding. In this poem, "On true love all my thoughts are bent," love is illustrated as an internal struggle of the poet between despair and joy. Our poet's concept of love is distorted to match the ideals of courtly love in that time, and though there may have been some good in his love, it was mostly bad. In conclusion, I believe that this poem expresses the idea that love is both a good and a bad thing, but I think that it puts more emphasis on the