How do any of the following poets’ views on love compare? In both Petrarch’s and Daniel’s poems, it seems as if they are both writing about someone who is unattainable. It is as if they are looking on from a distance. Petrarch is writing about this love that he missed while Daniels is writing about a love that he is afraid to miss. Daniels writes that he would turn down Rome, and the Pope for this women. They both write quite passionately about love. Also in both of their poems they write about how they are in love with a golden haired women. Petrarch writes in poem 90: “She let her gold hair scatter in the breeze.” And Daniels wrote “When I look at her golden hair…” Hair, as we discussed in class, comes up a lot in these courtly love poems, and is a major attraction to these poets.