How Courtly Love Has Survived
Courtly Love has survived through the years, managing to evolve from Shakespeare to Aerosmith. It is safe to say the form through which Courtly Love is expressed has changed in the process of evolution. We no longer go around reciting poetry to those we admire, or how many people read poetry for the sake of it. Rather, we demonstrate Courtly Love through the novels, music, and movies that we read, watch, and listen to. But the heart and soul of Courtly Love still remains in contemporary works. Matchbox_20 and there current hit song "If your gone" demonstrates this perfectly. It does an excellent job of showing unrequited love, which is a major subject in Courtly Love works. The song is the story of a man who wants his girlfriend to come back to him after an apparently bad break up. These are a few of the lines from the song which help to best summarize the song. If your gone, baby you need to come
These Courtly Love conventions used in these works have some similar traits to the Courtly Love poetry of the sixteenth century. It has been commercialized, rather than in the sixteenth century when it was wrote it had an individual meaning. Another example of modern Courtly Love is the song "Crazy for this girl" by Even and Jaron. "If your gone" and "Crazy for this girl" are very similar to Wyatt's poems "Whoso list to hunt", and "They flee from me" where unrequited love is the main subject. You look at her she looks at me, she's got me thinking about her constantly, but she don't know how I feel. The man wants the girl but doesn't know how to get her. You must respect the works for the era, which they were made. I think that both methods are valuable, and can be admired as great works of art. Saying that we have improved Courtly Love over the years is like saying that we could improve the artwork of centuries past. As you can see from the lines above this song doesn't exactly follow the mold of unrequited love. I think that these lines best represent the theme of unrequited love seen in this song. I think that today's example of Courtly Love are not as personal as those of the past. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. In Billy Ray Cyrus's "You wont be lonely now" you see more of the romantic side of Courtly Love where the man desiring the woman compliments her, like in Shakespeare's "Shall I compare the to a summers day" where he likens the features of this woman to a summers day.
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