Courteous poetry

The lyric Poésie S with the Moyen-âge are true Chanson S: their Strophe S corresponds to a musical sentence and a Refrain is always present. Their singing Rythme is defined by the obligatory accompaniment of a melody. The origins of lyric poetry can be required in the popular songs and the Danse S. the influence of the Arab culture is felt also.

Medieval poetry reaches its top in the art of the Troubadour S. the Midi, where the economy is developed than in the provinces of the North and where the daily life is less quarrelsome, is made more favourable with the art which sings the love and spring. The influence of this poetry is translated in the Langue of oil during second half of the 12th century.

The poetic kinds are: Weaving song that the ladies sing when they weave and embroider, the Chanson of crusade, the Pastourelle where one sees lords courting shepherdesses, the left play representing a debate on the love. Two topics follow one another it: the Love and the Natural .

More spontaneous and natural at the beginning, in general, poetries evolve to fixed forms: the Ballade, the royal Song, the Rondo, the Virelai. The idea starts to be dissimulated under the Symbole S, the Allégorie, the scholarship, which often come in the place from the Sentiment. As of the end of the 14th century the technical preoccupation with a perfection takes the top and poetry becomes a exercise of Rhétorique or an entertainment of company. Seeking to answer the aristocratic ideal, courteous poetry leads finally to the Maniérisme.

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