How do any of the following poets’ views on love compare? Ibn Zaydun, Arnaut Daniel, Guido Guinizzelli

Ibn Zaydun’s from Al -Zahra describes beautiful memories of love and sufferings because of love. Ibn Zaytun defines two lovers as “Thieves of pleasure”, and describes how lovers suffer the separation. He describes the love to be tough as even” flowers” feel sympathy for the lover.  Arnaut Daniel in turn describes love as something that can polish and aureate. He describes the woman as a noble and the love as something that keeps heart worm. By describing outer beauty of woman he mentions that his love to her is so strong that he will not even accept a whole city for exchange to her. He describes love as strong and beautiful that makes him strong and passionate as well. The noble view of love can be noticed in Guido Guinizzelli’s poem, where he describes love as a nobility. He explains how nobility and love gets inside the heart. He compares haughty people to mud, who has nobility outside the heart  and  compares sun to nobility, which beats against the mud. Another Italian poet Guido Cavancanti  focuses on negative aspects of love, describing the cynical view of love.

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  1. I enjoyed reading your response because of how in depth you took each meaning. I did the same response and understood some things differently then you have. Maybe I should go back to the poems and read them again with your response in mind. I agree they all describe love differently.

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