I have decided to compare the 4 pieces by the poets Ibn Zaydun, Arnaut Daniel, Guido Guinizzelli, Jahan Khatun. Each piece speaks of love as a piece of nature which is a beauty. Love is perceived as being beautiful but not always and the pieces talk about having a dark side to love. The poems also each give power to a different person in a relationship. “From Al-Zahra this poem was very similar to Jahan Khatun’s piece. Love is beautiful, love is nature but love is evil. Love has brought power to ‘her’ over the man. The poem’s subject is her because of how Zaydun describes the person comes across as very feminism. “The Art Of Love” by Arnaut Daniel love again is evil and has given a woman complete control over a man. The speaker loves this woman to a massive degree he is starting to think loving her too much will cause him to lose her. Not loving him is equivalent to her murdering him. “Love Always Repairs To The Noble Heart” by Guido Guinizzelli is different than the previous poems because in this case love still nature but a natural power that makes a man noble giving him power. Love will “…turn his every thought to her command” taken from line 50 page 355. Love gives men full power over woman. Finally “Heart, In His Beauty’s Garden” by Jahan Khatun speaks of love causing hell. The absence of love or the heart breaks causes the speaker to see no flowers. On a rose the speaker only sees the thorns. This now become one of my favorite metaphors. Love is a rose, it has it beauty the flower and its evil the thorns. This is balanced when the flower is living and love is alive. When love dies the flower disappears and only the thorns remain; the rose is no longer beautiful. In this poem love seems to have the capability of taking power away from everyone