Courtly Love

The love poetry we read from various poets from Spain and South France were very interesting works to read. They each had their own dinstinct views of love and the different aspect that contribute to what love really is. I think everyone can in some way or another relate to love, it is a topic that almost everyone has or will have at least some experience on the subject. It is one thing that we as human beings long for, to be loved by another with an burning passion. I also believe that we want to be able to show our love and faith and loyalty to another person, we as humans want to have that person who we can form a "spiritual union" with, as it says in The Dove's Necklace. The Dove's  Necklace tried to put into words the characteristics of love, and in some way try to define what true love looked like. It was interesting that Ibn Hazm had been through so much pain in his life, such as his the death of his father and his first love as well as his home being taken over by an opposing army, yet his heart was not hardened and he still was able to write a passionate love poem like the Dove's Necklace. My companion, I am going to make a vers that is refined also interested me because it wasn't talking of the same courtly love that was characteristic of the time. It was kind of funny that the man Guillaume IX was comparing his two different female lovers to two of his prized horses. After writing that work I'm sure no woman would ever to talk to him again, so it seems like Now when we see the meadows once again was an attempt to clear his name.